In doing some more research about other roadside memorials out there, I came across a news story from Chattanooga, TN. I’ll condense it to the following: The debate over a roadside memorial continues in Hixson… The families of three young women, killed in a a car wreck… set up a memorial…neighbors keep taking it down… […]
I just started a new map of the Roadside Memorials that i’ve documented to date. Many are part of the Descansos.org project webpage plus many more that I have not been able to update. Updating the images will be an on-going process so check back soon. Also I will make it a permanent link on […]
Tonite an email arrived that pulled at all my emotions. It reads :: “Señor, I have maintained my daughter’s roadside marker for 14 years now. I will soon be gone as well. It was important for me, in the waning years of my life, to be able to speak with her at the place she […]
I just received a preliminary sketch of Baby Grace’s roadside memorial. I’m really excited that Nancy B. decided to assist me on this project by preparing this sketch. I plan to make a presentation of this roadside memorial to Andy P. to see if he would allow me to place this memorial at the entry […]
Today the strangest ‘coincidence’ occurred for me. As I am driving down the Fla Turnpike I am on the phone with my mother (headset of course). See two major things were occurring for me these last weeks. First :: My mother is ill (diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer and given only 9 months to live). She […]
This morning, in the process of moving my office, I found a copy of the letter I wrote to the CEO of Sun Recycling on December 28, 2006. Sun Recycling is where Baby Grace’s body was found in the dumpster back in November. See on Dec 21st, Sun Recycling provided a funeral service to honor […]
Today I was able to define the statement for The Compassionate Friends newsletter. In this third workday of the SELP I was able to define my mission statement very clearly. It reads like this: What I am out to create is to transform the energy of grief, loss, anger and hopelessness into the energy of […]
On Dec 21, a funeral service was held for a baby girl only days old. The services at St. Matthew Catholic Church was held in the presence of 50 persons who really cared for Baby Grace. People like the workers who found her 6-pound, 19-1/2-inch body; the police detective who is investigating her death; even […]
There has been this story in the newspapers that is still gnawing at me. On Nov 20, a baby girl, named Baby Grace by investigators, was found in a construction dumpster – umbilical cord still attached. The first thing I thought was “how can anyone just dump a baby like a pile of trash?” But […]
“They who think that you are gone, because no more your face they see, are wrong, for in our hearts you live and always will in memory.” “Healing from grief is not a process of forgetting,It is the process of remembering with less pain and more joy.”
