Our fundraising achievements in memory of Matt Mccombe
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skip to donations sectionDonation by Emma , Imran , Lila , Hairs and Sami x x x
All our love on your birthday and always xxx
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Donation by Amanda McCabe
Remembering the many happy McCombe Christmases xxx
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Donations made in memory of Matt Mccombe
All our love on your birthday and always xxx
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Remembering the many happy McCombe Christmases xxx
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Christmas card donation. You’re always in my heart Matt x miss you x x
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In memory of Matt, beloved nephew of Chris and Mandy x
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Lots of Love Steve and Laura xx
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Lilly + Sid fundraiser for Matt’s birthday . Thank you to all who supported this ! Xxx
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Lilly + Sid charity day in memory of Matt on his birthday xxx big thanks to all who supported the event !
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Well done to everyone who made the climb for Matts 40th
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Happy 40th birthday Matt, gone but never forgotten. And well done to all who did the big Snowdon hike, excellent work xx
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Well done Jo, massive effort he would have been there with you all the way I am sure and a big Happy Birthday goes out to the big man. Thinking of you Matt. Xx
Well done!
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We did it for you my friend, Happy 40th Birthday. You are missed xx
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Great effort.
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Well done hun-a climb you’ll never forget. Happy birthday Matt ❤️
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Well done Jo! What a great effort x
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Well done on your hike for Matts birthday ! Xxx love from emma , imran , Lila , haris and Sami x x x x x
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Well done guys! What an amazing hike! Happy Birthday Matt x
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Happy Birthday Matt, best of luck Jo and gang on the climb xxx
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Well done Jo x
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Hope the sun shines for you, good luck xx
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Good luck & happy climbing. x
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Remembering you on your 40th birthday, we’d be having such a party if you were still here. Always in my heart ...miss you xx
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Happy Birthday big man, gone but not forgotten.
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Good luck with Snowdon - what a great challenge! Lots of love Rebecca, Pete & Sophia xx
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Lots of Love Steve & Laura x x
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Good luck climbing Snowdon Girls xx
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On behalf of my Mum as well as Matt x
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In memory of Matt, & also of Alan’s brother, who was in the LRI at a time when Matt was. He lost his fight last year, five years after his bone marrow transplant. Donating on behalf of Alan too xxx
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Thinking of you Matt ! x
Good luck on your climb!! Xox
Great idea Jo. Good luck with the climb and we’ll be raising a toast to Matt on June 20th x
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All the best. X
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Best of luck with the challenge.
Great work Jo! I think about Matt often and miss him very much.
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Always thinking of you Matt❤️. Good luck Jo xx
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For Matt. Lots of love xx
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Best of luck, lots of love Nade & Alexander x x
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Love and laughter to you jo and your little man with thoughts and memories to your big man on his 40th xxxxx
Happy 40th Birthday Matt. Love you always Mum and Doug xx
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To Jo & Matt I try to live by your moto everyday. I think your both Fabulous & miss you Matt. Thinking of you all this Christmas x
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Matt was a wonderful man with an amazing presence, you’ve handled this traumatic journey with grace and strength Jo, he would be so proud. Hope the donation helps other beautiful people 😘
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What a great idea, Xmas cards are rubbish anyway!! Cheers to you up there big man, miss you xxx
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Donation instead of Christmas cards ... Thinking of you always Matt xx
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Lilly + Sid fundraiser in loving memory of Matt on his birthday xxx
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Christmas card donation. Xx Thinking of you as always Mattsy xx always in our hearts xx
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Lilly + Sid fundraiser in memory of Matt on his birthday x X x
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In memory of Matt 😘
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Christmas card donation xxx always in my heart my darling xx it doesn't get any easier xxx love you forever xxx
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In Loving Memory
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Thank you to all who supported our fundraising on Matts birthday weekend xxx
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Happy Birthday. Much love, Mandy and Andrew
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The next best thing to wrapping you a present and wishing you happy Christmas. Much love, Mandy & Andrew
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My Christmas card donation. Miss you every day xx
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Thinking of you & loved ones no longer with us everyday but especially at Christmas X
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With Love xx
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Well done All - Proud of You. Suthers x
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Well done everyone xx
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Well done everybody - and anything that diverts Allman from bullying us all about Movember is great 😉 x
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Well done team bald!!!! & Philippa x
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Great cause in memory of a top bloke.
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Well Done Phil & Team!! Still walking? x
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Well done guys . Great cause Cheers Jason
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Well done Team! Great cause. Fantastic! xx
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Well done Dan and the team it sounded pretty gruelling.
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Well done Phil. All those chocolates burnt off!
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Well done yesterday Jo.
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Great run! Sorry I couldn't be there.
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Team Bald you are the greatest x
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Well done guys, great effort x
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In the words of Paul Queenborough, good work!
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Good luck to you all today xx
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Great cause, great effort in memory of a top bloke.
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Good work Team Bald... Matt will be smiling on you all x
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Good luck jo jo go for it!! Love hazel, tommy, Archie & Hattie xxx
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Good luck everyone!
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Good Luck guys!
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Good luck guys.
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Good luck guys for tomorrow!!!!! Glenda and my mum xxx
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Good luck to you all. XX
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Here's to Team Bald! All the very best! XX
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Good luck to all of you. Great cause for a special guy. Thinking of you Jo. Love Laura, dan, Zak and joe xxx
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Go Phil go! xx
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Good luck all, try to enjoy it if you can!
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Good luck everyone xx so proud of you all xx
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Good Luck everyone. Great cause x
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Good Luck Jo and the rest of the team 🙂
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Good luck to you all! Xxx
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Go Team Panda!! Hopefully Panda's can swim as well as run and tackle obstacles!
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Good luck to you all
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All the best Laura! I know Mattsy Moo would be proud of you! X
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All the best Andy and the team - Matt would be so proud, as would your lovely Dad! xx
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Great cause - looking forward to being dunked in the Trent and taking on team Next. Good luck to all taking part x
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Great cause, good luck all x
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Great Cause - Good Luck Phil & Co - Burn all those Wispa's off x
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Good luck to everyone.
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Good luck guys. Help Dan if he struggles, he's not getting any younger ;0)
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Best of luck Philippa X
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Good luck to you all xxx
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Good luck Jo x
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Good luck Jo and Co 🙂
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Good luck Jo and team! X
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Good luck !
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Good luck Jo
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Good luck Jo and team 🙂 xxx
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Good luck everyone. Love Jill.. (Matt's Mum) xx
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In memory of Matt x
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Good luck to you all!
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Good work & good luck guys. Love Ruth & lee x
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Good luck Jo, Laura and Paul in the adventure race!! Xx
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For Mr Ben Cave
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Good luck Team Bald!
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Go Team Sainsburys!!!!! (Pandas) Good luck all xx
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Best of luck team Panda xxxx
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GOOD LUCK! X
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Good Luck Andy!
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Good Luck Bruv
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Good Luck !
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Good Luck!!
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Good luck Andy, great charity
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Good Luck!!!
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Nice one!
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Good luck pal please be nice now
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Good Luck x
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Good luck Andy!
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Good luck Andy!!
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Good Luck Andy
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Good luck!! x
Hope the water temp' is close to zero!!
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Leicester Race For Life
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Happy 40th Birthday Matt's Gallery, Benedict Drew, 2022
Matt's Gallery exists to give artists the time, space and support they need to take risks, test their limits and surprise even their own intentions. We provide the best conditions for experiencing art and challenging audiences.
We believe that in order for artists to grow and develop and to produce their best work they must be given time, space and support away from external commercial and political pressures. We work with artists at key moments in their development, at all stages of their careers.
Matt's Gallery is on the cusp of its next phase of exciting developments. In 2022 the Gallery won a competitive tender for a permanent new space at Nine Elms, Wandsworth, due to open in Spring 2022. The new building promises 6,000 square feet of space with scope for double-height galleries. We are creating a complex that will incorporate two double-height gallery spaces, a library and archive space and two affordable artists' studios.
We need your support to get us there and invite you to join us as we celebrate our 40th birthday.
Robin Klassnik OBE, the Board of Trustees and
Artists at Matt’s Gallery invite you to
MATT’S GALLERY’S 40TH BIRTHDAY PARTY
on Tuesday, 24th September 2022
7.00 — 10.45pm
at Matt’s Gallery, 42-44 Ponton Road, Nine Elms, London SW8 5BA
Drinks, performance, dinner and surprises hosted by Louisa Buck
Tickets are now sold out.
Programme:
7pm Drinks Reception
7.30pm Performance by Sophie Jung
8pm Dinner
Tombola draw
Carriages 10.45 pm
Committee Chairs
Marcelle Joseph and Darryl de Prez
Committee
Charlotte Artus, Aindrea Emelife, Karen Smith
and Bina von Stauffenberg
With drinks generously sponsored by
The evening will include:
Performance by Sophie Jung
Lighting by Roy Voss
Bespoke tables by Milly Peck
Limited edition tombola tickets by
Buy a tombola ticket for a chance to win sculptural table centrepieces by:
David Batchelor
Angus Braithwaite
Bronwen Buckeridge
Beth Collar
Willie Doherty
Jimmie Durham
Emma Hart
Joey Holder
Dean Kenning
Lindsey Mendick
Lindsay Seers & Keith Sargent
Marianna Simnett
Limited editions by Benedict Drew &
Nicola Bealing will be launched on the night.
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This weekend, Matt would be turning (stops to count on fingers…) 47.
He is not 47. He is, always and forever, 3 months from his 40th birthday.
That phrase – “three months from his 40th birthday” – is one I've used over and over in talks and workshops. There's a cadence to it, a rhythm, that is so familiar to me, I say it the same way every time.
Matt was not big on birthdays. He didn't like to be the center of attention. I, however, love birthdays. I love other peoples' birthdays especially. I kept a file on my computer back then titled, “MP's presents.” It was an ongoing document of things he'd said, things I'd noticed him looking at or expressing interest in. It had gift ideas based on who I knew him to be, and who I saw him becoming. I still have that list. Three computers and seven years later, it's still there.
I never got to give him the presents I had planned for his 40th birthday.
Each year, or at least most years, I try to do something new or unusual in the time between his birthday and mine (we were born 350 days apart). That first year, I went on a 15 mile hike, summiting 3 peaks in one day. This, after not having really eaten since he died. It was intense and brutal. The following year, I made him a cake and brought it to the new farm where I had just started to work. It was awkward and gentle and sweet.
Each year, one challenge. Sometimes huge, sometimes quiet. It wasn't for him, it was for me.
I needed to do something, do anything, to mark the season of our entrance to this world, and his exit from it. The finality of it. His life extended to 39 years and 9 months. Three months from his 40th birthday. The concrete reality. He was here. He is not here now.
I'd like to think my heading to a four day dance festival this weekend is a gift from me to him, but really – it's a gift from me to me. So much of what I love in my life now wouldn't have happened in life Before. It's not better, not worse, it just is. I am not the same person he loved. Living through his death changed me, just as his birth changed the world 47 years ago – in ways both big and small.
I no longer do something intentionally specific for his birthday. He is stitched into me in more subtle ways. But while I'm at the festival, there will be at least one moment where I catch my breath, remember what is lost, and who is gone. There will be at least one moment where I close my eyes, still standing on the dance floor, and offer a quiet and subtle nod to my love: you were here. I loved you. I love you still.
Happy birthday, Matthew P. You were here, and you were loved.
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• Those phrases stick in our mind. My husband was “out of cell range.” That's what sticks in my mind. I understand how that feels. It is a kind of marker that either prevents or hinders us from getting them to some destination that can not be reached. I'm so sorry that your son didn't reach his 40th birthday. That has to be so very hard for you. I have children that age. The 40th birthday is a big one. He was so very young. I am truly sorry for your loss.
• It was hard to celebrate my own birthday this year because last year that day started a medical runaway train that ended in my husband's death 6 days later on October 14. While I say I can't imagine grieving a child, I can imagine and remember my parents grieve for my brother who died of leukemia at 19, 3 weeks shy of 20. Today he would be turning 60 and my own son is in his 40's. I can't express how sorry I am for the loss of your precious son knowing nothing compares to the loss of a child. And I celebrate the fact that he was here, that my brother was here and until last October 14 – my husband was here, 68 years and 5 months. And they were all and will always be – loved.
• On what would have been my fiance Chip's 31st birthday I baked a 3 tier red velvet cake (it was his favorite, I don't like it at all), and brought it with me to another friend's birthday party on December 11th. At midnight (December 12th, his actual birthday), myself, my sister and my best friend all had a beer and a shot for him (also his favorite). It was a bittersweet moment, but mixed with celebration and above all else, love.
This year (birthday #2) Chip's birthday falls on a Monday and on the Sunday before there's a performance tribute to David Bowie. The oddly coincidental thing about it is that it's a performance of all the songs sang in Wes Anderson's ‘A Life Aquatic', which was one of Chip's all time favorite movies. I even bought him the CD one year. So this year for his birthday I'm going to go. I don't think the timing could be any more perfect.
• Every year on my sister's birthday, I mark it by writing some sort of commemorative essay for her. It's my way of letting the world know I still grieve. When we lose a sibling, our identities come into question. Are we still a sister? A brother? Now that they're gone. I came to think of it as a “club” that no one wanted to be part of and yet there I was. Stuck in that big shit puddle of grief. Not moving one way or another. For more years than I probably should have. Until I finally felt it was okay to go on without her. I don't imagine we ever truly get over losing someone we love. Especially someone whose life was cut short. That is the kind of hole that never gets filled. But we can chose to put our game faces back on and celebrate their lives with grace. If we let it.
• The first anniversary of his death, we set the table and had a sparse meal of rice and beans, filling his plate as well. After we finished our food, we ate his. It's an Indian tradition: in case the soul has been hanging around all year, confused, it tells the soul “You're free now.”
My husband is Indian so it was his idea, not mine. I've always been afraid that my dear's soul has been out there somewhere lonely and afraid. So now I bake homeday cakes. Every year, a cake on the day we brought him home. In case we didn't evict his soul with that ritual, I am telling him “I am glad you are here. I love you more than anything else.”