Every year I do a "send me your favorite picture of the year" routine. Could be a drawing, a photo, whatever... Pretty, ugly, sad or happy, what would you like to share this year?
You know the drill...
This has been such an odd year for me, I might as well include an odd picture.
I got word that my younger brother was found dead in his apartment in Pittsburgh in late June.
Two days later, I was on the plane to clean out his belongings and try to make sense of everything. It was hot and muggy. His body had been on the floor, that stain that you see, for about a month before it was found. The stain of his two dogs' bodies was not far away.
I will spare you the worst details but there were a lot of tears.
My task was to send what I could to his four kids and ex wife, sort of a curated snapshot of his life as I couldn't grab everything.
We weren't sure what happened. Was it suicide or an overdose perhaps? He was suffering from mental health issues but he was an incredibly brilliant man.
Two weeks ago the autopsy report came back. My sixty year old brother died from natural causes, heart failure.
It was a huge relief.
I was three days boxing up that apartment. This is the image that probably best defines this very strange year.
Love you, Johnny.
1 comment:
I'm sad you had to go through that :-(
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