I have a book of prompts that I used to interview my grandmother a few years before she died, and I am so glad we took the time. So many things I didn’t know!
Jill Twiss and I are Twitter friends (back when I was on Twitter) — she is hilarious and delightful and if I sneak into your IRL date I promise to be cool about it.
GOSH, thanks! Truly an honor to be mentioned. I LOVE the idea of that over Jon's desk, let me know if I need to start stitching! Also, p.s. that pattern is the design of one of our clever guest contributors, Mr. Stevers. He's a keeper!
My daughter was born on 9/10/2002. We didn't know her then, because she started her life as our foster daughter. They called us on the 12th-we have this newborn, and we know you're at capacity but everyone is devastated, and there's a tropical storm coming this week and...could you keep her until Monday, when we find a different placement? Clearly we said yes. I remember so many people came over that Thursday and Friday to see her. I was puzzled, because people always came over to meet our foster kids, but this was different. So many people. And then it dawned on me that she was good medicine that week. People needed to soak in the purity and innocence of her little newborn self. I called the placement team Monday morning and told them to leave her here. And then we were able to adopt her. She gets a lot of comments that are similar to yours about her birthday, and she feels bad, because obviously she has no memory of that day. And when she is feeling bad about that, I tell her thst her birthday and her arrival in our lives was a reminder that things were still beautiful, and we just needed to be reminded of that. So I think that it true of your 9/11 birthday too. May you always shine with that beauty.
My parents both died when I was in my early 20's. Ask the questions! There are so many things I wish I knew but I didn't think to ask...
I have a book of prompts that I used to interview my grandmother a few years before she died, and I am so glad we took the time. So many things I didn’t know!
Jill Twiss and I are Twitter friends (back when I was on Twitter) — she is hilarious and delightful and if I sneak into your IRL date I promise to be cool about it.
GOSH, thanks! Truly an honor to be mentioned. I LOVE the idea of that over Jon's desk, let me know if I need to start stitching! Also, p.s. that pattern is the design of one of our clever guest contributors, Mr. Stevers. He's a keeper!
My daughter was born on 9/10/2002. We didn't know her then, because she started her life as our foster daughter. They called us on the 12th-we have this newborn, and we know you're at capacity but everyone is devastated, and there's a tropical storm coming this week and...could you keep her until Monday, when we find a different placement? Clearly we said yes. I remember so many people came over that Thursday and Friday to see her. I was puzzled, because people always came over to meet our foster kids, but this was different. So many people. And then it dawned on me that she was good medicine that week. People needed to soak in the purity and innocence of her little newborn self. I called the placement team Monday morning and told them to leave her here. And then we were able to adopt her. She gets a lot of comments that are similar to yours about her birthday, and she feels bad, because obviously she has no memory of that day. And when she is feeling bad about that, I tell her thst her birthday and her arrival in our lives was a reminder that things were still beautiful, and we just needed to be reminded of that. So I think that it true of your 9/11 birthday too. May you always shine with that beauty.
Wow, what an incredible story. Hope for the future when you needed it most. Thank you for sharing this with me.