Show and Tell Sunday - Building Bridges

Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.

African Proverb

Today for Show and Tell, I would like to share how fate and circumstance can touch and heal lives, including my own.

This past week, I was visiting a blog newly discovered during International Comment Leaving Week. Cara is a mother of three daughters including her firstborn, Emma born still eight years ago. Cara lives in a rural part of the United States with minimal resources for parents whose baby has died. In response to this need, Cara has been preparing a proposal to start an Infant Loss Bereavement and Support Group at her local hospital chartered by the National Share Organization. Cara posted about her endeavors and requested input on her proposal. (I don’t think she knows what she signed up for when she very innocently emailed me her draft proposal.) I asked her permission if she wanted my professional nursing and clinical managerial spin on it and she was kind enough (or a little crazy?) to allow me to provide feedback. I am very proud of Cara and my contribution to her efforts in caring for her community. She honors her family and all the lost babies, including mine.

This effort also reinforced how important it is to me that no parent suffers from a lack of support and sensitivity like I did after my own miscarriage seventeen years ago. I am glad to be part of this blogging community and even more so, humbled to be given the opportunity to honor and remember my own lost little one.

Post Script Sunday morning: I just took the dog for a walk on a glorious, sunny, cool morning and an Orange Monarch butterfly crossed our path. A coincidence? I think not. Thank you.