Jackson’s Flower Walk (2022)
This was our fifth Flower Walk in Jackson's memory. (For previous years’ photos, here’s 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.) We did a remote-walk again this year, though we’re hoping that we’ll be able to do this in-person again next year. This was Mateo’s first Flower Walk (well, last year he was in-utero!) and we took the boys for a walk around Green Lake, while so many of you did Flower Walks in your own corner of the world.
We’re also so touched to see how the Flower Walk has kept some of you together (for example, some of Jackson’s teachers get together), and this is the second year where some of you have just met each other because you saw another person wearing a Flower Walk shirt out there.
Thank you so much for walking with us - for your love and support, today and always.
What is a flower walk? When Jackson was a toddler (and an early riser), we would often go on “flower walks” around our Green Lake neighborhood to pass the time, and experience the world through Jackson’s eyes. We would smell flowers, blow on the dandelion “puffballs”, and look for bunnies along the way. It has been a very special tradition to host Jackson’s Flower Walk in his memory. We smell the flowers for Jackson, and raise money and awareness for Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC), while performing acts of kindness in his honor.
