I had some guests scheduled to visit the BBMH this past week.  We’d texted several times to coordinate and set it up.  Then, the message, there had been a death in the family and we would have to reschedule.  This had me reflecting once again on the Joseph Campbell quote over the door here at the BBMH I wrote about in last week’s blog:

“We cannot cure the world of sorrow

  But we can choose to live in joy.”

So much of the work on the facade of the BBMH is how I have processed my own grief …or just endured  it…

My oldest son, John, passed away at the age of 30 (2014) from an accidental heroin overdose.  He was a Type 1 diabetic from the age of ten requiring 4 shots a day of insulin.  He was an amazing artist and I live with his work all around me.  

Several years later, Ashlie, John’s half-sister passed at the age of 42.  She too was an artist and an art teacher in Key West.  She was one of my greatest supporters after John passed.  It was crushing to loose her too.

Both of these beautiful people are memorialized throughout the BBMH facade….turning my sorrow into Joy.  In the next few weeks I’m going to tell you more about the recognition of these two through mosaics because their story is worth telling.  In the words of my younger son, Paul, a wise old young soul,  “you don’t get over it (something like this loss), you learn to adapt.”  

Lynn