Love is The Greatest Healer. This video is such a beautiful example. No wonder it was the winner at the Cannes Film Festival in France.Without a word, it is my favorite film of my entire collection. It is such a moving example of the theme of all my work, “All that is real is seen with the heart.®” And what is more moving… than children, and love.
I wrote about Pink, playfully teasing General Mills, bless their hearts, to give even more money than the generous $2 million dollars they just donated for breast cancer research.
I hope to help with my Kisses™ characters, which not only adorn anything you might see with a comic friend like Mickey Mouse or Snoopy on it, but Kisses™ angels are what we call “endearing advocates,” designed to make a difference in the world. I have a rich background in design, marketing, character merchandising and fundraising.
Here is the reason this is so important to me:
I have friends who did not survive cancer. I know women who are warriors and have certainly beat the odds — yet going through “the war” was so challenging, for them and for me and all who care for them.
Here is a saying I’ve shared in my book GOOD MOURNING and audio tape, RELAX:
We can love without suffering for those we love.
and another…
Your own happiness is the greatest gift you can give to another.
However, like overcoming illness or pain, it is easier said than done.
Love is The Greatest Healer.
This was a poem I wrote, initially as a gift for my friend, therapy for myself. Little did I know it would spawn my first book of poetry, GOOD MOURNING, What Death Teaches Us About Life, and then MOURNING GLORY, Love Lives Forever.
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I called my friend, Mildred
and she told me her husband,
her partner for forty-two years,
the man she loves
has cancer
and it is terminal.
I know what it feels like
although it took me many years
to feel it
after my best friend
was told he had six months to live
and left, I thought, until I realized
how much he taught me, before, and now,
and that our relationship never left
love cannot die
and only the cancer was terminal.
~ Vivian Greene
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…with gratitude to SU2C (Stand Up to Cancer) and their supporters including Amgen, AARP, Bloomberg Philanthropies, GlaxoSmithKline, Revlon, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Wallis Annenberg & The Annenberg Foundation, Alliance for Global Good, New York Giants, Milken Family Foundation, Philips Electronics, Steve Tisch, The Island Def Jam Music Group and many others.
In addition to ABC, CBS and NBC, SU2C major media partners include AOL, Condé Nast Media Group, eBay Inc., Facebook, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Hearst Corporation, Los Angeles Times, Meredith Corporation, The New York Times Company, Time Inc and WebMD.
…and heartfelt appreciation to St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a non-profit organization that raises funds for childhood cancer research. In 2009 research grants and other awards totaled $11.5 million.
Fellowship winners include:
- Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
- University of Colorado at Denver.
- Northwestern University, Chicago Campus.
- University of Minnesota.
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.
- Columbia University Medical Center, New York, N.Y.
- New York University School of Medicine, New York, N.Y.
- Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, N.Y.
- Duke University, Durham, N.C.
- University of Pittsburgh.
Scholar Awards went to:
- UCLA.
- University of Chicago.
- Feinstein Institute of Medical Research, Manhasset, N.Y.
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.
- Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Ore.
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn.
- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.
- University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle.
- University of Washington. (my alma mater)
Research grants went to:
- UCSF.
- UCLA.
- St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital of Tampa, Tampa, Fla.
- University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston.
- Health Research Inc., Roswell Park Cancer Institute Division, Buffalo, N.Y.
- Columbia University Medical Center, New York, N.Y.
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.
- St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn.
- Texas Children’s Cancer Center, Houston.
- University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
- Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Another $5 million in cooperative research funding was given to the Children’s Oncology Group and labs used by that group’s 200 member institutions, the foundation said.
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And above all, you who care. May there be more films of the this caliber, poetry, art, and
little sisters who share their hair.
Love is The Greatest Healer.
Vivian Greene
Invest In Love inc
“All that is real is seen with the heart.”
© 2009 – 2011, Vivian Greene. All rights reserved.
I asked Pastor Elwin Ahu of New Hope Christian Ministry this question. He had served as a judge in Honolulul for 24 years before he became a minister for this Four Square church.
I’ve had the pleasure to help a lot of literary campaigns. I’ve been writing since I could hold a pencil, and how I loved to read the moment I discovered books.
