Has it been a year?

Wow.....it's been a year.
BOY has it been a year.

I took up this challenge last year--the timing was implicit, as timing generally is.  I took it up and gifted the sister with a letter a day for the month of February.  She was waiting for her surgery, newly diagnosed with oral cancer.  I spent a month in sunny California as a result--but prior to the devastation of surgery, there were letters galore.  She told me what that meant to her many times over.  When I returned home and she went through chemotherapy, the letters continued.  Not every day, but multiples in the week....even though we sent texts every day, I knew what the letters meant.  Making that trip to the mailbox was a treat for her.  And a battle.  Leaving the 'safety' of her house to run the risk of being seen by the public eye was huge--even in those few steps.

She's doing better with getting people time.  We've continued to push her.  She and I converse on the phone--difficult to understand some moments given the loss of most of her tongue, I've no qualms to tell her 'nope--didn't understand squat what you just said......rewind, rewind!'.  She's able to laugh at that--notsomuch at the folks who pretend they understand her out of embarrassment or a need to be (what they believe) is kind.

The letters made a hard time a bit more bearable for her.  They helped her feel connected and loved.  She told me she would 'hear' my voice when she read--more proof that I write as I talk, I guess.

So it's the letters that I return to--and come February, it'll be a letter a day to somewhere!  Now, I'm not sure where and I don't have a plan.  *laughing*  Go figure.  But I do have a sense of the difference that a card or letter, scattered in with the junk that gets shoved into that little box makes.

So I'm back for another round!

Woooooohoooooooo!!  And I even have a bit of an edge cuz I made a whole BOX of cards to write on and it's sitting RIGHT where I can reach it.
Or........it will be when I ask he-who-moves-things-within-reach to move it into my comfy space we've created!

Okay....NOW I'm excited for February to come!!  :-D