December 05, 2005
The Message
I will be visiting Washington DC later this week to photograph children with cancer for the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation’s web site. (It is also the tree lighting for the Candlelighters organization of which I am a board member.)
One of the children I will be meeting is a sixteen year-old cancer patient whose father died of cancer two weeks ago. Despite her loss, this amazing young woman is filled with faith and hope and she is eager to have her picture taken as a spokesperson and member of a club nobody wants to belong to. I am blessed to have the opportunity to meet and work with her.
I told my art student Ashlin about the upcoming trip during our art lesson on Friday. Ashlin is an incredible eleven year-old who knows about pain and suffering himself. (He has had countless surgeries over the years to correct a cleft palate and faced much ridiculing when he first started school.)
Despite all he has been through, Ashlin is one of the most compassionate kids I have ever met.
“Would you do something for me when you see that girl who has cancer?” he said, with a big, albeit lopsided smile
“Sure,” I replied.
“Would you please give her this?”
He lifted his sleeve, and removed a maroon rubber bracelet from his wrist.
I took the bracelet from him and cradled it in my palm.
It had the word HOPE embossed on it.
Posted by trevor at December 5, 2005 08:04 AM
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Trevor please light a candle in Tylors memory while you are there. We miss you take care and Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DR
Posted by: denise rizor at December 6, 2005 01:34 PM