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Letter 34 – I Hope Your Outcome is Better Than Mine
Dear Garrett, I don’t know if I said this before, but when your friend’s mother came to see me, she told me that she knew what I was going through. And then she said it again. That she knew what I was going through. It took me a minute to understand what she was…

Letter 52 – It Rings Like Failure
Beautiful Child, One of the hardest things about being your parent was trying to get you to do things that you didn’t want to do. It was hard to guide you into being responsible or accountable for anything. You wouldn’t do it. You resisted, hard. I always felt that you wanted all the freedoms…

Letter 3 – I Can’t Accept This
I Can’t Accept This Garrett, It has been just over nine months since you died. You are dead. A child. A young man in the making. My boy. I miss you. To say I miss you doesn’t convey the anguish of it. I miss you. In this time, for these months, I’ve barely come to…

Letter 55 – Your Things
Hi, Garrett, I didn’t keep many of your things. I remember Kevin saying that you didn’t really have many things, and it was sad how little you had, but I thought differently. What had been important to you changed over time, and you got rid of the things that weren’t important to you anymore….

Letter 60 – Bagel Delivery
Dear Garrett, Not long after you died, Alex came to the house. She brought bagels. I don’t think she meant to stay. I think she just meant to shove them into Kevin’s hands and get the heck out of there, but for some reason she did stay. On the porch. And waited for me…

Letter 25 – Heart Broken AND Open
Garrett, I remember sitting with Tricia and telling her, I have all this love for you that has nowhere to go. I have all of this love for you that has nowhere to go. And she gave me an exercise. She told me to put my hand over my heart and to tell you,…