Your new life began
five months ago today and
I try to find mine.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Relay for Life
The annual Josephine County Relay for Life began today, and the lighting of the luminaries and reading of names was tonight. I attended as there were four luminaries remembering Renee.
The Relay is held on the track at the North Valley High School. Decorated white bags remembering those who died or honoring survivors lined the outside of the track completely around its circumference. Those bags represent just a fraction of those families impacted by cancer in just one county in America. Multiply that by thousands of counties in America and hundreds or thousands of countries around the world. The impact of this disease is incalculable.
The haiku that follows does not even come close to capturing the emotions I experienced tonight. The only life experience that I have had which comes close to tonight was the time I visited the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall when it came to Grants Pass and I found the names of those airmen who served with me that were killed. Tonight and those temporary little white tombstones will be with me for a long, long time.
Friday, June 10, 2011
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