I'm Not Fishing

Under no circumstances should this post be understood as my fishing for a greeting card (the time for that has long since passed), but I thought these were pretty cool.

There was an article in Slate today about a graphic designer, Emily McDowell, who survived cancer as a young adult and is now designing the greeting cards she wished she'd received at the time. As she notes in the article, it doesn't really make sense to send a get well card to someone who might not, while sympathy cards make it seem like they're already dead. So she's created "empathy cards."

They're all great, but at the moment these are my two favorites:

And since more and more people seem to be coming down with cancer,* I thought it would be good to pass this along.

You can read the Slate article here.

And you can find McDowell's entire collection of Empathy Cards here.

* I learned yesterday that another acquaintance I see at the conference I'm at spent the last year fighting cancer.