My sister

I love my family very much, but rarely do I "miss" them.
I guess I have too much to do, or just enjoy being away.
This week, for some reason, I have felt particularly homesick... for my family.

My sister Candice has been sort of a safety net for each person in my family.
She gives advice, comforts, uplifts, counsels, listens and is always there.
Really, even my mom and dad have fallen into her arms.
She is that person for our family.
But, she is also something else to me... she is my sister.

I have been particularly homesick for her this week.
Seriously I have cried THREE times! I never cry!
She is that person that shares my heart, even if I haven't divulged any new information.
She is the person that cares and knows, even when nothing is said.
She sees more in me than I do.
Sometimes she has cared for me even more than I do.
A sister is something special, a connection that can't be matched.

Last night we watched "In Her Shoes"... We'd never heard anything about it.
To my surprise the show is about two sisters.
Nice.
Let the crying begin... again!

At the very end of the show one sister reads this poem to the other... it made me cry.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,...)

i fear no fate(for you are my fate,...)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,...)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

-E E Cummings



I love you my sister.