Cancer has no patience for perfectionists. It laughs at your aspirations. It snubs your life’s work. It reshuffles and redefines hopes and dreams without mercy. All in all Claire had some pretty simple goals: to bring some honest art into the world, to raise wonderful children, and to try to live a good life in the face of a terminal diagnosis.
Despite her prodigious talents, it feels like a lie to tell you that in the time she had that she somehow finished her mission or achieved all her goals. And I find myself struggling today because – while it’s impossible to sum up anyone’s life – it’s especially hard to understand the life of a wonderful person, at the peak of her powers, cut short and left incomplete. It’s just wrong. And it hurts.
Despite her prodigious talents, it feels like a lie to tell you that in the time she had that she somehow finished her mission or achieved all her goals. And I find myself struggling today because – while it’s impossible to sum up anyone’s life – it’s especially hard to understand the life of a wonderful person, at the peak of her powers, cut short and left incomplete. It’s just wrong. And it hurts.
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