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Why Childhood Cancer Awareness Matters, September 2024

  In September 2023, I shared a post for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month outlining the symptoms my child, Sadie, had prior to diagnosis of a cancerous brain tumor. To read that post, click here: https://www.stacieeirich.com/post/for-childhood-cancer-awareness-month This September for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, I’m sharing a series of short videos from our journey to Sadie’s cure. They were taken from December 2022-September 2023, while we lived in Memphis through cancer treatments at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital . These videos are a testament to Sadie’s strength, resilience, creativity and how we found light through darkness. Most importantly, they are a window into the life of a pediatric cancer patient and why childhood cancer awareness matters. In addition to our Hope for Sadie playlist , I want to share a podcast episode that Sadie and I were honored to be able to do together. We were invited on Mark Levine’s Help and Hope Happen Here , a podcast that focuses on ch
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One Glorious Chorus

  DCINY Production/Dan Wright Photography/June 9, 2024 One Glorious Chorus  for my fellow SAHC singers & friends  We step out of a yellow cab into a swirl  of sounds, of lights, of colors, step into  a hotel elevator going up, up 39 floors,  our window view silver skyscrapers  in a sea of blue, a cacophony of traffic and noise    stretching on, interrupted by a breath of green  blooming across its center, a horse-drawn carriage,  summer jazz and food truck smells mingling in city air.  We step into a rehearsal room, relax and feel the comfort of a space of song, the way our voices weave as we sing,  the way this city welcomes and overwhelms us, the way  our many voices gel into one glorious sound, one glorious chorus in this city of wonder, this city of sounds and peoples and languages  and love, this city where dreams are made and lights seldom dim,  t his city where paces quicken, beatboxes bump, rainbows burst.  We stand within that storied hall together, feel