Jesse

When I posted yesterday’s photo, I did not realize that the storm was gathering for my family, a beloved brother and his wife, my parents, and their grandson, Jesse and his sister. Jesse took his own life yesterday, a lovely young man, talented, intelligent, in the throes apparently of being and coming out in a world still uncomfortable with, even hostile at times, to its own variety. He could not have chosen better parents, and his friendships seemed to abound. There was no shortage of love. It is the hardest of realities, that sometimes all the love in this imperfect world isn’t enough. Let the tears fall like rain.