The Language Of Death
As a person with metastatic breast cancer facing what is expected to be my last year with a body, I wanted to explore the language surrounding death, dying and end of life… Are we ‘the body’… do we...
View ArticleFacing death with positivity
Facing death… I keep hearing how brave, how positive I am. But is it all about positivity, or is it broader? I’ve been trying to understand what has shaped my perspective to see if it really all came...
View ArticleOn living, dying and metastatic breast cancer
I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in Sept 2016. It had metastasised to my liver with innumerable tumors and no chance at resection. This is expected to most likely be my last year. I have...
View ArticleWhich world do you live in?
My World = One’s Own World. This is our first world. Before all of its later cladding and contortions, it is at first a place of sensing, beingness, the preconscious mind and unknown knowing. It is...
View ArticleTHE ADVENTURES OF A WEED by Donna Williams
The Adventures of a Weed by Donna Williams Once upon a time, there was a weed who lived among the grass, in a patch by the road, in a street in the suburbs where nothing changed and things always...
View ArticleTHE JOURNEY by Donna Williams
To my husband Chris who journeyed with me 17 years teaching and gifting me so many things & to my friends Scott & Morghana who understood what journey meant and gave me the joy of watching...
View ArticleTRICKS OF LIGHT by Donna Williams
A trick of the light is an optical illusion. We see something that isn’t there, or we see something we think is one thing, then look at it from a different angle and find our perspective is changed,...
View ArticleWhen grieving the loss of someone who is more than ‘just a partner’
Chris and I have been more than husband and wife, more than lovers, more than family to each other…. we have been incredible best pals. We have spent 17 years in each other’s company and we are still...
View ArticleTo love is to EMPOWER – by Polly Samuel (aka ‘Donna Williams’)
To love is TO EMPOWER and perhaps this is never so pertinent as when talking about someone who is in their last months in the body. It is great to offer ‘helping’ someone to HELP THEMSELVES, for this...
View ArticleWhy admiration is not true connection – Polly Samuel (aka ‘Donna Williams’)
I only ever wanted equality… so look across at me, now and later, never up at me… find the sistership in me and you will see why admiration was blocking it. Polly Samuel (aka ‘Donna Williams’) Author,...
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