Sage,
Thinking of you as always Sage.
We were all at one of my Partners house for Thanksgiving Dinner. There was this girl there, she was about 8 months pregnant with her first Baby. Of course I had to try to guess the Sex of her Baby without her telling me and I’m like, girl, girl, I think it’s a girl. Is it a boy? Nah… she finally said “it’s a girl”. I did my usual spill, you know, Kym is a nice name for a girl, lol. Needless to say, Baby D and Kyky and Toney all sighed out loud and laughed. The new mom to-be politely said, “Kym is a beautiful name but we already have her name.” Excitedly I asked what she’d chosen and she said “Sage… Sage Ivory”. We all instantly froze in place for a few seconds while looking around at each other and smiling. I finally complemented her on such a beautiful name choice. My heart filled, while my mind played back so many memories of you.
These Thanksgivings and Christmas’s are so hard without you, especially for your Mom, and I can’t even imagine the soreness in the hearts of Grace and Eric, Dreka and Boo and Gregory and your nieces, heck for every life that you touched.
Ironically I had already been laughing at you today and how I used to try to convert you over to gold. But you, you were the best gift giver. You would listen all year every year, secretly paying attention to what others needed and wanted and have the most thoughtful surprises. It was one of your many talents. I love you Sage and I miss you.