Well Bryant, here is the Wishing Well. The moving (in more than one way) tribute to your generous spirit and personality as well as your intense love of music and art. The Wishing Well will be housed at Goffstown High School and we are going to dedicate it to your memory sometime in the upcoming months.The Well will benefit the Music & Drama Club(s) at the High School. You loved music and performances so much. Ever since the day you were born! So how fitting of a tribute will that be? So many of your friends were there, it is truly amazing! Melissa, Hana, Christine, Nate, Brian, Kristen among them; The Special Olympics group and DreamCatchers kids and of course, the people who make them - Tamy, Charlene, Nancy ... everyone.
Anyway, it was a nice day, kind of brisk which you would have definitely like. Windy. Of course, you and wind, we know that's a match! Everyone was smiling, laughing happy. Talking about you and how much you loved a good time - laughter, music, smiles.
Time has been flying. It's amazing how time goes by, but then again 20 years with you just went by like that. Definitely wanted / needed more. I did have one major epiphany (again). When you were first born and at the hospital those first few months, during that llooooonnnggg drive home one of the songs that would often come on was "Everything I do, I do it for you" by Brian Adams. We had featured that in the CHAD slideshow that Emily did for the Leadership class because that always reminded me of you. And still does.
When you were in the hospital and that song would come on, the part in the song that says "There's nowhere, unless you're there" really meant so much to me. It was true, as soon as I had you, everything else became a mute point, there WAS definitely nowhere (worth being) unless you were there. It made me so sad to know you were in the hospital and I wondered if you would live to leave that place and if you'd ever have any quality of life.
Well cut to now ... we all know the answer. Yes, you lived to leave the hospital and you certainly had a quality of life. The interesting part of this is that you could change the words now to "there's nowhere that you're NOT there" - I see you everywhere. You did so much, lived so much, gave so much. Like Elton John's Circle of Life says "you should never take more than you give ... in the cirlce of life" and that's another yep moment ... you did not take more than you gave, ever.
And that was so apparent yesterday and I am sure will continue to be as your moving tribute makes the rounds, collect coins and helps, in some way, to give more than it takes. That's your life Bryant, your legacy. So yes, I see you everywhere, remember the things we did, the times we had and true to my hopes and dreams for you when you were first born - there is definitely nowhere unless you're there and you continue to be everywhere.
Love you and miss you - so much so it takes my breath away at time,
Mommy
