Day 1: Things I'll Never Forget About Lori
Her Amazing Smile!Recently I was lucky enough to come across this photo that I'd never even seen before, from our trip to the Big Island in March of 2006.
It's a self-portrait that my dear wife took while lying on one of the lounge chairs out in front of Whale Crossing, in the tiny town of Hawi.
We would spend hours on those lounge chairs, just staring out across the big blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean... watching the clouds form into great billowy thunderheads over Maui (just across the straight,) or dreaming our way through the uncountable stars that fill the Polynesian sky at night.
This photo so captures Lori's immense pleasure and curiosity at just being alive, and it illustrates to me the healing power of a smile... while I can't help crying every time I see this photo, they are inevitably the kind of tears that leave you feeling cleaned-out, refreshed, and happy to be alive. Just like Lori was on the day she took this amazing photo.
I will never forget Lori's amazing smile... it will haunt me in the best of ways throughout the rest of my days.
Happy 32nd, baby!
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Post a CommentThanks for helping the rest of us in our healing.
Thank you so much for sharing this side to Lori. It was always painful to read of her struggles, and seeing this side of her, the one where she was so still so obviously in love with life and with you,despite all that she was going through, well, this is what she should be remembered for, and not for that nasty disease that took her far too prematurely from this planet.
Thank you again for sharing.
This is a great photo and a really great idea.
See, Cary...life still has surprises in store for you--Lori has seen to it.
For Lori...
Happy Birthday, sweet lil Lori: Kiddo, you touched my heart in a way that I still have yet to understand. I feel so cheated by knowing you but the short time I had with you and I feel so awful for poor Cary...he loves you so much. I used to hate cancer, I would have traded every experience, good and bad to never have been diagnosed with cancer, until I met and lost you. Your grace in every single thing you did inspires me in unfathomable ways and it comforts me that your courage and dignity during these past five years puts a real face to the term cancer survivor. You won in the most beautiful and peaceful of ways. As for you and your hubby: You were both incredibly blessed to have one another. Together your life-force can be felt, even through cyber space (cornball, huh Lori)...but I know you would get what I am talkin' 'bout. I love you sweet lil one, I miss you and my heart aches for your hubby Cary. He is strong and I am grateful that you are guiding him now to further your mission of helping us all through this sometimes f’d up thing called life...
With kindness.
Thank you Cary. What a fantastic picture and what an amazing woman. And you are a fantastic man. Don't ever forget that. She was drawn to you for a reason.
Lori you are radiant.
Cary I love this picture.
Bliss pours through those eyes!
Makes me want to hold her face and say thanks, and if that sounds silly then so be it.
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