Siblings Day 2021
“My baby brother Rob was my first friend and companion through life. As kids, we chased each other down our shadowy hallway with gangly limbs, climbed on top of my dad to play monster, comforted one another in our heartaches and, at times, called each other out in the most brutally honest way. He followed me around, annoyed me, drove me crazy: and I fiercely protected him. In the nearly 11 months since Rob's death, and as we inch ever closer to the year-mark, grief often seizes me by the throat in the most unsuspecting of moments. The hum of a violin note, wildflower petals floating in the wind, a discarded bottle of whiskey.
“Siblings are often called the "forgotten mourners", as our grief can be lost in the collective grieving of our families. Today, we lift up the siblings who we've lost, who knew us in the way only a sibling could. We will speak their names, remember their laughter, the shape of their face in a smile, the pain they caused and the joy they brought forward into our lives. We will remember that grief is love with nowhere to go, even when that love had chips, cracks and other pains inside it, it used to have a location.”