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exhibit, put together by Rev. Renee
Ward, was held on Monday, and
m ade p o ssib le by C o n c o rd ia
University’s Arts and Culture pro­
gram in partnership with W ard’s
Chrysalis Ministries and other com­
munity associations, including Port­
land Center Stage.
“These are all Northwest Afri­
can-American women whose lives
were touched by breast cancer,”
said Linda Church, another breast
cancer survivor and the director of
the Arts and Culture Program at
Concordia University. “The whole
point of doing this exhibit here and
now is because we are an institution
of education, and we are dedicated
to our surrounding community.”
The reception was filled with in­
dividuals from throughout the com­
munity whose lives have been
changed by breast cancer. Dressed
in pink. Church was one of many
attending wearing a local tailored
hat, in honor of the brevity and
courage of the survivors, like her, of
the disease.
The purpose of the program, she
said, was to educate and inspire
with the visual arts because it is a
different process of learning than
simply opening a book, which is
why she is so excited to support
women who have made an effort to
help educate the public of breast
cancer.
“We learn from each other,” said
Church. “More than we can ever
learn on our own.”
The American Cancer Society
and Multnomah County attended
the ceremony to outreach and pro­
vide information to the public with
display tables, which will be avail­
able throughout the entire month.
“The point is to get the word
out,” said Church. “This visual ex­
hibit is very engaging. I like seeing
and creating avenues where people
are excited and pulled in by what
they see.”
Although she lost a breast dur­
ing treatment of cancer, Jackson
said she couldn’t find the words to
express the amount of joy and ap­
preciation she has gained from the
experience, and she spoke of her
grandchildren.
“I thought I had become a woman
with the birth of my two sons,” she
said, ‘i t wasn’t until 1 had to make
profound and altering decisions
about my physical body, along with
the loss of my hair, that I entered
into woman hood.”
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The name for his book, he said,
g raphically d etails the c o n se ­
quences of acting on wrong infor­
mation in anticipation of right re­
sults. A lesson that came into being
the night he realized his plane of
reference was “really skewed.”
“So many of us are not aware of
who and what we are,” said McCoy.
“Seldom do we look within for those
genuine authentic true answers that
reside within all of us.”
According to McCoy, too many
people within society have a depen­
dency on others to tell them what to
believe.
Even as a child, he said he re­
ceived information that he should
do what he was told, and if he did all
these things, then he would receive
the American dream.
“But I received the American
nightmare,” he said. “I was a prison
of my own mind, and was using the
wrong information,”
McCoy said humans have con­
sequently fallen into “some sort of
deep amnesia,” which catalyzes the
pervasive mentality which often
keeps people from making changes
within their own lives. “Forever in­
carcerated in a state of mental and
spiritual ignorance, I was unaware
of, and therefore unable to seek, the
guidance of the authentic being that
I am,” he said.
“Because we don’t realize or act
on this,” he said. “We submit our­
selves to a lesser existence, and this
crosses all economic and commu­
nity lines.”
He said, however, as a result of
his process of self-discovery, those
issues are no longer alive within his
life.
Although he felt helpless for a
long time, he said “everyone has the
power to rescue their own selves,
which is a gift we give to ourselves.”
“As a result of regaining my hu­
manity I can allow myself to live my
own happiness.”
According to McCoy, Portland in
particular has such an incredible op­
portunity for healing within the city.
“Portland is so progressive in its
thinking, but we need to truly see and
value one another, and say together
we can deal with the issues that are
impacting our communities,” he said.
“In order to do this, you must
look into yourself.”
Each and every obstacle I have
encountered has a purpose, said
McCoy. “And that is the purpose of
the book— to promote healing.”
Coming up on Saturday, October
29, McCoy invites the community
to attend his book release celebra­
tion where wine and Hors d'oeuvres
will be served at the Talking Drum
Bookstore located at Reflections
Coffee House in northeast Portland.
M cCoy’s book will be available
to purchase at the event, which will
be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at 446 N.E.
Killingsworth St.
Leon M cCoy’s Book False Im­
ages is also available at Portland
State U niversity bookstore and
online at amazon.com.