something’s missing
but we are glad you found us

First it happened to Erin. Then Megan. Allison was next. Then Ashley. I followed suit shortly thereafter. We became part of “the club” that no one is dying to get into and yet someone has. We had all lost our mothers and too early. 

The idea of a project was initially a support group for childless women that lost their mothers. But then Lee joined the club and I thought this isn’t only women that need this. 

This isn’t just Mother’s Day. This isn’t one day a year.

I realized people lose family in other ways. Sometimes loss is experienced through rejection and not through death. Holidays can be just as hard for those individuals whose family have rejected them for being who they really are—be it through sexuality, gender or religion to name a few.

So there you have it. What started out as something narrow has widened. The idea is to be there for each other on holidays that are hard. And to grow a community and family to help with what we have lost. 

We have all lost someone we love, but we can all love each other.