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 her death and again I had a hard time dealing with this story. I could not live with the news story that one-day old Baby Grace, was laid to rest. I could not accept that a human being could discarded a baby like yesterday’s trash. I could not accept that a human being can be so cold & heartless.<\/p>\n
But judgements do nothing but criticize. Actually what I could not accept was living with my own inadequacies – my story that a single human cannot make any difference. See my story sounded like this: “That’s just the way things are…” and “It’s unfair but what can I do about it?…” I have valid reasons for being this way & I hear that story running like a tape in my head – over and over again… I got sick of it!!! I cannot just sit here & let it go by like yesterday’s news – into the trash. I could not accept that things had to be like this. <\/p>\n
Appropriately so the week I was looking for what I can do, the S.E.L.P. classroom was about “being unreasonable.” Living outside of the reasons we give ourselves; beyond the limits we live in; beyond an ordinary life and just living into an extraordinary life. So I took on that challenge. I want an extra-ordinary life!<\/p>\n
So I made an “unreasonable” request! My letter requested that, besides being unreasonable in providing funeral services for a baby he never knew, I wanted him to be even more unreasonable. I wanted him to allow me to create a Roadside Memorial for Baby Grace on his property. The request was so that I can create my live outside my limits and beyond my reasons. And so that in living an unreasonable life I can dream of an unreasonable society where – not one more baby gets discarded into the trash. <\/p>\n
A month went by with no reply and I started to feel small again. My reasons showed up again. Reasons like: “this is just too morbid” – “too weird.” – “I don’t have any relationship with this poor baby.” – “this is too much work!” It is these very reasons that kept my humanity small!<\/p>\n
So this morning, as I am thinking of this letter, I get a phone call from Sun Recycling. The call caught me off guard since the man, Andy P. quickly introduced himself and went right into – what are you asking of us! I thought he was going to say no – but he went right into “what do you want to create and what do we have to deal with.” <\/p>\n
I am amazed at the generosity of these men! The level of commitment, love and compassion. This is inspiring to see the better side of our humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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