Comments on: A Stroll Down Mammary Lane

By: Betsy

Betsy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:58:18 +0000

Rosemary,

You are the most spiritual person I know and your words and drawings will so help and inspire others when they can’t find their own words.

I love you, I admire you, I am so in awe of you,

Betsy

By: jingle

jingle — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:58:36 +0000

dear darling rosemary, i’m so glad to see your wonderful illustrated journal in circulation where it can help others prevail over breast cancer as you did. i’m eager to read all the chapters and to be inspired by you and your talent once again.

By: Gail Reid

Gail Reid — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:11:14 +0000

Rosemary is a woman of many artistic talents and how wonderful for her to finally have an outlet for her journal of her breast cancer journey. It is a bold move to share the private moments of experiencing breast cancer. As a survivor myself I know well how difficult it can be to even say the words “I have cancer” let alone create art the expresses the feelings behind the words. This is a gift to all of us who will read this, both from the creator and the publisher. I hope we get to see many more installments. October may be the symbolic Awareness Month, but breast cancer is hard at work every day of the year. It is inspiring to see a depiction of someone fighting back and winning the battle.

(N.B.-What a wonderful way to be introduced to this site. Despite my New York roots, I’ve been in Atlanta way long enough to recognize the reference to the old AJC in the name of this charming publication.)

By: chrys

chrys — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:02:08 +0000

This is wonderful, Rosemary.Thank you for sharing your thoughts and pictures with all The Dew readers. You continue to be an inspiration to all that know you and your work. I look forward to future installments.

By: JT

JT — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:33:02 +0000

I have read Rosemary’s journal(still unpublished) which chronicled the devastation of breast cancer on her life and David’s and am reminded of the Yeats quote, “All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.” Her manuscript combines beauty with anguish and the vivid images she created while waiting at the doctor’s or curled on the couch with her critters and David in attendance allowed those of us on the sidelines to understand better the emotional and physical damages of the disease and its treatment when words sometime failed. I am so happy that The Dew is introducing everyone to Rosemary, my dear friend, and generous supporter of others who have faltered because of this disease