This is the third year I’m attending the Accessing Higher Ground conference in Westminster, Colorado. In 2015 I was here 6-months after Joe died leaping from the upper floor of a building blocks from where he lived in Ocean City, MD.
I’d be at this same venue looking up at the building in a much different way than probably most other attendees. Then, when up high in my room, would look down and again think of Joe’s last moments.
Now it is more of a regular hotel building and not so loaded with emotion.
Woke in the middle of the night and checked my iPhone to see it wasn’t fully plugged in for re-charging. Looked to see a NAMI post on Facebook regarding singer-songwriter Kathryn Rose Wood on losing her brother to suicide and collaborating with another musician who also lost a brother to suicide writing a tune called Free on Kathryn’s CD In The Ashes.
Read the story and bought the EP on iTunes eventually falling back to sleep for a bit more rest before waking to take in morning sessions.
Really well done video for Free. Always helpful to see/hear where it is that us loss survivors have shared experience quite different experiences from other kinds of loss. It helps lessen the sense of isolation.