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Cancer survivor and NY tImes bestselling author Susan Chernak McElroy recounts two related tales of giving thanks - one from her cancer recovery, and the other a story from her book "Animals as Teachers and Healers," about a woman, changing circumstances, and her beloved cat Sammy. A handy and beautiful filler for this time of year. This is a lifted excerpt from my complete pilot "For Kindred Spirits," also available on PRX.
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Piece Description
Cancer survivor and NY tImes bestselling author Susan Chernak McElroy recounts two related tales of giving thanks - one from her cancer recovery, and the other a story from her book "Animals as Teachers and Healers," about a woman, changing circumstances, and her beloved cat Sammy. A handy and beautiful filler for this time of year. This is a lifted excerpt from my complete pilot "For Kindred Spirits," also available on PRX.
Broadcast History
The entire pilot of "For Kindred Spirits" has been broadcast twice - once in Florida and once in Iowa. Station names if needed.
Transcript
SCM: Sixteen years ago, when I was being treated for cancer, I spent a week at a place called Commonweal, which is place that cancer patients go, and tell their stories, and share their situations with each other, and some of us find amazing healing there, and all of us find an awful lot of peace.
One of the processes that we did when we were there, which I?ve never forgotten, was a process called ?giving thanks.? And what we were told to do was sit down, across from a partner, and start saying out loud, all the things that we were grateful and thankful for. And that was the only explanation of what we were to do,
and it kind of fell like a ?thud? on us, well ?OK, I can do this for about thirty seconds.?
And we went through the typical, you know, ?thank you for my family, thank you for my health, thank you for my job, thank you for my car??and?the process wasn?t over. The woman who i...
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Timing and Cues
INTRO: (suggested):
"Author Susan Chernak McElroy wrote the best selling book "Animals as Teachers & Healers," and offers 2 great stories about giving thanks, and how that seems to work during tough times."
OUTCUE: Music ends at 4:39
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floating On Air | Cliff Eidelman | A Simple Twist of Fate. | Varese Sarabande | 1994 | 00:30 |
| This is a Tale... | Nigel Westlake | Babe. | Varese Sarabande | 1995 | 00:56 |
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Uri Yamanachi
Posted on November 22, 2008 at 02:39 PM | Permalink
Review of Being Thankful/Cancer/Cat
I thought was a great Thanksgiving piece. Great use of music and good reminders of things to be thankful for, especially for us animal lovers!