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Journal Friday, March 13, 2009 2:15 PM CDT ~Kahlil Gibran Last Wednesday I dreamt of him. He was laying on me, his back to my chest, as he often did. My hands were around his smooth soft Buddha belly. My fingers nimbly tracing the varying blue shaded veins that seemed to lie just beneath the surface of his translucent and creamy pale skin. His mid-section, although distended, was peaceful and calm. It was like viewing the earth from space; cloudy swirls of white amidst a bluish-green topography, like a map—a map that led to heaven. My cheek was resting on the top of his head. With the slightest movement I could feel the prickly tickling of the tiny course hairs that had begun to emerge. Beautiful and bald, it felt like I was holding the most precious gift in the Universe and I was. My heart and his beating rhythmically, beating together. “Who loves your face?” I could hear myself ask—something I asked him everyday for as long as I could remember. It was rhetorical and he knew it but I always got an answer, “you do.” The realness, the vividness, and the comfort with which I dreamt, last Wednesday, was unparalleled since his death. I awoke in the early dawn hours expecting him to be right next to me. As sad as it was when he was not, I have not felt this much relief and peace in months. This past Wednesday, marks one week until his 10th Birthday. Last year, we were paralyzed from his death. This year we are giving much more thought to how we would like to honor our sweet boy. Mike and I are sponsoring another Right Whale, from the New England Aquarium Rescue Project. During Harrison’s last summer, we took him Whale Watching off the coast of Boston. He fell in love with the sea life and sponsored Coral—a young male whale—whose progress we followed for months. Sadly, Coral was no longer on the list, so Mike and I picked Snowball—according to his bio—“Snowball got his name from a unique scar above his left lip that resembles a big white snowball. We do not know what caused this scar, but it does make him easy to identify, even from a distance. Snowball has been seen in habitats where only a few right whales are documented yearly, such as Jeffrey's Ledge off the coast of New Hampshire and in the waters off Long Island.” It seemed fitting that we choose a whale who ventured where few whales do. That was so like our Harrison, he often ventured where few dared to go. I think he would approve. And we will follow Snowball with the same excitement and enthusiasm that Harrison followed Coral. Next Wednesday, March 18th, our hero would be turning 10. We will be attending Mass at St. Mark Catholic Church at 9:00 am. We will all be wearing green (his favorite color). We will be gathering every Sunflower we can and lovingly place them where he lays. We will be dinning out for, of course, Japanese food and sipping non-alcoholic (smile) Pina Coladas and we will be eating chocolate cake with green icing. This is what we would be doing with him, so this is what we will do to honor him and celebrate his magnificent life. Thank you for celebrating Harrison. Gina and Mike Hospital Information:
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