HeyJaredDear William
"Dear William" is my heart laid bare, a place where I share memories and the deep ache of living without my son. These letters are my way of keeping him near, telling him about the world now, and finding his presence in every word I write.
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You’ve probably heard about the Cornell 7. You must have. You live amongst the universe, so you must all be talking about it, right? I hope so. Because I am.I’m talking about it with your little brother Kai. Who’s not so little now. He’s fourteen, at that age where he’s still a little boy, but growing daily into a man with his own motives, his own thoughts, his own understanding of values. And so at this time, this imminent time in the news cycle, I wanted to see the type of values he has.As you
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Dear William,This week I had a little skin cancer removed from my forehead.I say “little” because that is exactly how I thought about it going in. A little spot. A little procedure. A little scrape here, a little scrape there, stitch me up and send me home.They told me I should plan to rest for a full week afterward, and I basically dismissed that information entirely.Surely, I thought, those instructions were meant for someone else. Older people. Frailer people. People who are not me.I was very
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I thought it might be nice to share William’s obituary with you all.My dear friend Amanda Converse wrote this beautiful piece after sitting with us around our living room, sharing stories and memories of our most beloved William.She somehow found the words when we could barely find any ourselves. She captured so much of who he was: his spirit, his energy, his humor, his huge heart, and all the little things that made him William.For those of you who never had the chance to know him, I hope readi
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I know you know this story.But today is Bodhi’s birthday, and I want to tell it again.Because sometimes it’s good to remember how much hard we walked through to fully appreciate the joy we have today.The story actually starts long before July 28, 2020.It starts in October 2019, about eight months after you died. Read more
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Jus t a quick note to follow up on my last letter.Yeah. I get it now.You didn’t show up in Switzerland. You gave us space. You let us have the trip.You let us make memories, be together, laugh, hike, eat lemon tarts, and just enjoy being a family. Of course we honored you. We thought about you every single day. We carried you with us everywhere we went.But you let us just be.And then...Oh, then you came through.As always.We landed in Boston after a long day of travel. We made it through customs,
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