Roses are Red

And Violets are Blue

But not in a world with you

Roses are pink, purple, blue

Violets are yellow, orange, green

In this life all you needed

Was to be seen

You saw things in every shade

Everything wasn’t as it was made

The sounds of the earth

hummed with a priceless currency

Your energy was a song

Vibrations rang

Through every fiber

Every color

Every sight.

Now, Roses are red

And Violets are blue

In this world, without you. 

It’s hard for me to sleep this week, so here I am at 5am reading this page again. It’s so beautiful to see everyone’s love and messages for Rose. It still doesn’t feel real to me and I can’t believe she’s been gone for a year now and I’m still expecting her to just walk in my front door as usual..

Thank you all for donating so generously to help care for her brother. I talk to him with weekly phone calls and see him when I can. Many of us have tried to really be there for him since he lost Rose who was his main support in his life. He is having a really hard week with the anniversary of her passing and I try to comfort him the best I can, but it just breaks my heart even more. We all love and miss Rose so much and her memory lives on through all of us who were lucky enough to know her ❤️🌹

My heart is broken, especially finding out just today.

She was such a an inspiration to me.

I’ll never forget coming home from Israel 🇮🇱 to find out that I never left. Rose instantly welcomed me with open arms and expressed her appreciation of our people and the love of adventure we shared.  Although we were strangers who just found out we’d be living together it seemed as though we’d known each our whole lives. For the next following 8 years we were always there for each other through the ups and downs and loved each other no matter what. 

 I can’t even express how much I miss you 🥺💔 I think about you all the time.