I owed some of you a blog post, per my newsletter yesterday.  I wanted to talk about my experience at the border when I went to teach a workshop last week. I deleted it because suddenly, it seems like a tiny speck of a thing on the back of a tiny speck of a thing.

I lost my sister today. My only sibling. She died suddenly at age 42.

Rest in peace my sister. Everyone says you’ll always be with me but I’m pretty sure you took a part of me along with you when you left because I feel so empty. . . So sorry for the times I wasn’t a good sister and friend. I miss you and my heart is broken into so many pieces that I can’t even count them. I love you always.

Jennifer Workman Barcenas

 July 29, 1969 – Sept 24, 2011

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