Janelle Myers-Benner|Jan 13, 2019
Jason and I just returned from a conference in Richmond, VA - one that had us looking at food justice and many of the things we feel deeply passionate about. You came to mind multiple times! I had been thinking of you since Facebook had alerted me to your birthday - hoping that it was a day full of celebrating you! Then Jason and I found ourselves sitting by the James River on Friday before the conference as we had gone early to be able to walk the Richmond Slave Trail together. I thought about you and your sits by the river as we watched the birds and tried to prepare for the journey we were about to go on. Then I was reading a Sun magazine on our trip home today and this little segment made me think of you. Sorry for the very long comment but when I saw your post for today I wanted you to know that you have been on my mind and heart many times over the last few days and will continue to remember you and your family! "We were all doing the best we knew how. We were winging it. We still are. To belong anywhere is messy...Sickness taught me about mortality and time, which is a kind of equation balanced by mystery. It gave as much as it took. We are brittle and break, or we deepen to encompass pain; to draw a circle around it, around ourselves; to be more than we were before it came. This is the strange alchemy of loss and love. This is grace."