by Heather Straughter | Aug 12, 2012 | Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey, This letter has been brewing since Tuesday. On Tuesday we went up to see Scotty & Leah at the lake. We never went up there last summer but as you know we went up a lot with you. Back then, I sat on the porch with you on my lap drinking white wine and...
by Heather Straughter | Aug 2, 2012 | Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey,You, my sweet boy, were ever-present today. The day started early with me and Ethan visiting a JHFH family. We went to pick up some things that belonged to Xavier and we spent some time with his grandmother. And before that we made our morning visit with...
by Heather Straughter | Jul 22, 2012 | Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey,Thursday night you were in my dream. It was the first time in a long time that you were there and the first time in a very long time that it was a good dream. Not just a different version of the death dream. Anyways, you were you. You were cute as a button...
by Heather Straughter | Jul 10, 2012 | Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey, I wonder what it is like on your end. I talk and talk and talk to you all day long in my head. And I feel like you hear but I wonder what it is like for you. I have been struggling on some sort of almost existential level with death. I can’t stop...
by Heather Straughter | Jun 28, 2012 | Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey,Another kid died. And another family is enduring the hardest and most god awful thing that can happen to a family. The thing is that almost 19 months have passed and I find myself thinking about the day you died all the time. And I think about all the...
by Heather Straughter | Jun 23, 2012 | Letters to Jakey, Uncategorized
Dear Jakey, There are so many different things I want to write about. So many different letters have been written in my head lately but none have made it out of my head. Unlike when you first died, things are just much more muted. It isn’t the raw emotion of...
