My sister Jennie wrote a post on her blog recently that I loved, so I asked if I could share it as a guest post. Some of you might know Jennie, and know that she experienced the death of her best friend early this spring and how hard that has been for her. She writes:
When Bethany Hayes of Capacity Corner was diagnosed with MS, her life dramatically changed. Today she shares some precious lessons she’s learned: Multiple Sclerosis is often called “the invisible disease. “ Still, when I first diagnosed, I felt like a giant sign hung around my neck that read: I HAVE MS. I think I felt this way
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Dear Cheryl, You would have liked the balloons. There were dozens of them, massed together in colorful bunches and handed out to your little son Braxton’s cousins at your burial. I thought the children would let them go all at once, but they released them slowly, one by one, and we watched them drift up
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Lying in the grass last Sunday afternoon, on the slope of yard next to the road, I turned my face away from the sun and away from Liz and Lavina lying next to me, closed my eyes. I wanted only to listen and not to talk, wanted only to feel the sun warm on my
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I have a picture of the two of us on my bookshelf. She is wearing her shiny blue windbreaker with the Wakarusa logo, her short hair mostly black, ruffled across her forehead, a little spiky. Me beside her, arm around her, grinning: deep-set eyes, hair parted flat against my head. I don’t pay attention to
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