Our family held a memorial service for my middle sister this past Saturday.

It was a wonderful, joyful, healing, cleansing, hopeful event and day.

I think I'll be saying "good-bye" to my middle sister forever. But I'm starting to feel hopeful about saying "hello" to my own life and needs again. At least in ways that didn't seem possible until now.

So here's a "CHEERS" to new beginnings.

-Otter