A couple of years ago Anderson Cooper and his mother wrote a book called The Rainbow Comes and Goes and then an HBO special called Nothing left Unsaid. It was a conversation that started via daily emails so that at 91 years of age, Gloria Vanderbilt could converse with her son and vice versa so that, at the end of her life, have….nothing left unsaid.

I had seen the HBO special a couple of times and before we went to the Bahamas last year, I bought the paperback copy of the book and Heath bought the audio book. We sat together at the resort and I read and he listened. I remembered that yesterday as I was really working on accepting that we had our last conversation.

Last Monday night, Heath and I had our last conversation. For some of it is was the daily banter that we always had. A recap of the day’s events, anything that happened that we wanted to share. Mostly it was me getting guidance on life principles and how to live with the glass is half full mentality. Which has been hard for me over time, but in the past two years gotten much better at choosing happy.

The last thing we talked about was Kenya. Every other year WE puts on a staff trip where you have the most incredible opportunity to go to one of the WE villages and have a trip like our guests have to see why we do what we do every single day. It is open to family, friends and anyone in your life you want to share your WE experience with.

Since Heath was such a strong factor is me getting my job at WE I wanted him to come with me. That was what we talked about. We were going to go on the trip and then extend our time in Paris. He was going to confirm with work and see how many extra days he could take and we would be booking our tickets, “when I come back from DC.”

On Friday we got the email from work about booking the trip. I am not going to lie, I don’t want to go on this trip without him, but I KNOW that I have to go BECAUSE of that that same reason. But thankfully I don’t have to think about this today.

I would encourage you to have conversations with the ones you love. Not just texts. There is something about a real conversation that happens between people when you hear their voice, their tone, their intent. Most importantly how you can learn the lessons in life that we get from being in relationships.

What I would give to hear him say hello to me one more time.

Live your best life,

Lisa

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