Butterflies & Heart-Shaped Clouds
Have you ever heard a story that was so tragic and sad that you felt helpless to do anything about it? Well, what would you do if you had the opportunity to send a little happiness to someone who really needed it, even if that person was a stranger?
I was recently contacted by someone close to me who has been following and supporting our Photo Hunt Challenges since the beginning with the following story:
“One of the families at my daughter’s school recently lost their son (Vincent) to Rhabdomyosarcoma, a form of cancer on June 9. He was 7. They had also lost their daughter (Annabella) a few years ago to Leigh’s Disease which is a mitochondrial disorder, she was 6 months old. I have been following their story since hearing about Vincent’s battle. I was hoping that maybe you can include 2 items in the photo hunt challenge – butterflies and heart shaped clouds in their remembrance.
The reason being, after Annabella passed away, they started seeing butterflies everywhere. They constantly had butterflies at their door and around them when they were out and about. The family said that Annabella was sending them butterflies to let them know that she was there and Vincent loved that. Before Vincent passed, his mother asked him what things he would send when he went to heaven and Vincent said, heart shaped clouds. At the time, his mother couldn’t remember ever seeing a heart shaped cloud, and after he passed away, she was sitting with their daughter, Sofi, and was telling her that Vincent went to heaven, and Sofi looked out the window and saw a heart shaped cloud. Since then, she sees them pretty regularly.”
So get your cameras ready and please be on the lookout for butterflies and heart-shaped clouds during the month of August! We will be sending a link of all the photos from these categories to the family of these two little angels who were taken way too young….
Well this is a pretty touching story and a pretty solid emotion to start the day with. I hope I can do any sort of justice to these two items!
That is such a sad story. I hope I can find some worthy photos of butterflies and heart-shaped clouds for this family.
Wow I am so saddened by their loss but it seems as though they are finding comfort in such simple things which makes me smile. Every time I see a butterfly I will think of them and you better believe I will be on the lookout for heart shaped clouds! Thanks for sharing!
totally not what i expected to be the reason why we have these two items in our list. but wow, what this family have gone through! i hope i can find some pretty colored butterfies and i’ve never really noticed a heart shaped cloud before…but bet i will be looking up more this month
Wow, if this doesn’t encourage people to try this month’s challenge, nothing will!!!
Awww…that is such a sweet story. I got chills just reading it. I’ll be on the lookout for butterflies and heartshaped clouds.
I have been on the search for heart shaped clouds and have been having a very hard time! Has anyone else had any luck???
I was walking home from work one day looking up.In awe I never saw this in my life time three heart shape clouds In my path I didn’t know what to think but one thing,It was a sign from my soul mate that crossed over in 2008.I will never forget those clouds.
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