June 24th — Today at Wonders and Worries, a counseling service for children whose parents have a life-threatening disease, the children made Feelings Gardens. Sara comes out of her play therapy session with a flower pot she decorated that had paper flowers sticking out of it, each one representing a different emotion. These were feelings Sara has had since finding out that her Mommy has cancer. They included some obvious and some surprising flowers: sad, angry, frustrated, exhausted, jealous, bored, confident, smug and the biggest flower of all was hopeful. Sara and I chatted about why she felt each emotion while Daniel had his turn to create a feelings garden. When he came out of the playroom, his flowerpot had only one large flower: sad.