Day 275/365

     Today I got to shoot and write a pretty bittersweet assignment. (If you'd like to see my other photos, I read the short writeup I did, you can find it on MLive here). It was a last minute one, and all I was told was that a group of ladies from the Red Hat Society were visiting a friend of theirs in the hospital. When I drove to the hospital and actually met the woman, Linda, who was getting the visit, I found out that she was in the hospital from being in a serious car accident a few weeks ago that killed her husband. 

     When her friends walked in and each one of them walked up to her, hugged her, and told her how much they loved her and were there for her, it was truly touching. It was easy to see how much she'd missed them, (she was in I.C.U. until last week so her only visitor has been her daughter), and how much them being there helped her. It made me think of when I came back home after finding out my dad had passed away, and how much having my family and friends there as soon as I walked in the door really and truly helped me get through everything. 

It's really amazing how much human beings can do for each other just by simply being there.

Day 163/365

     Today's post is from a shooting I covered in Saginaw. It's still under investigation, so I don't know the full story. What I understood from the entire neighborhood of people watching the police tape the area off was that a young man was in the neighborhood to help his grandmother with some yard work and was shot while he was on his bike near her house. He ran into his grandmother's house where he died before he could be taken to a hospital. I was standing with people who knew the victim pretty well, and who took his death and how it came about pretty hard, (understandably so). One woman, (I'm not sure how she knew the man), was so distraught that at one point she passed out from crying so hard. I'm at the point where I think I'd take just about any other sound right now to replace hearing her in my head.