Like Fragile Flowers…Life’s Harder Lessons

I’ve learned that there are people in our lives who are like a fragile flower, beautiful and strong on the outside, but when the petals are pulled apart, you realize they are often the ones we will have to say goodbye to before we are ready.

I learned this first in adaptive, P.E class where a newspaper memory of a young woman who’d die before I could meet her, hung, a sad reminder to the…