#sukalaka

[emmybarr]

I loved seeing this today. Hard weeks can be the most inspiring weeks for seeing where you might go next. #hoffmanlove #punchpunch #classybarrfamily #missingmyphee #unclegordyrightagain #Sukalaka #ColoradoNursesaretheBEST ❤️ #Repost @brianandreas ・・・ Playing with new watercolor paper & new stories about how we keep creating as easily as breathing... (at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus)

[emmybarr]

Happy Birthday Aunt Jill! My kids felt so lucky that when Mark and I went on vacation their Aunt Jill came to stay and play. AJ is the most fun ever. I always tell people who don't know her "My sister is a really nice version of me." #Mybigsister #mybestfriend #mysisterhasthebestsister #sukalaka #westandwithbowlinggreen #hoffmanlove #laughingtillourbellyshurt #itmustbethetimechange #tired (at Fairport, New York)

[emmybarr]

to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again. - Ellen Bass Here we are - the four of us. My Phee. Together on the beach. I think it was that summer trip to Long Island to visit Greta and Clark, our best friends who had moved away. We went fishing and you caught something. I think it was an eel. We had never been to the ocean and we played all day in the waves. I will never forget that. It was so scary being knocked over, but so fun that we kept jumping right back in. #philtheworldwithlove #julylove #fouroffour #hoffmansized #whonamedithellskitchen #sukalaka #gordyshair #thanksmom #loveyouback (at my memory)

[emmybarr]

So grateful for my big sister. My champion, my friend, my light, my laughter, my singer of Mr. Bojangles, my sukalaka, my supplier of grapefruit gummies, my love. I think I probably couldn't wait to get to you way back when. #soulsisters #sukalaka #happybirthdayjill #storypeople #brianandreas (at my memory)

[emmybarr]

I love this. My dad saved this letter all these years and gave it to my sister Jill last summer. Jill is writing to my mom who is still in the hospital after giving birth to me. I think Jill is 8 1/2, Gordy must be 4 and Phil was just a baby himself.Jill is laughing because my mother's hair changed color with each child. It was red for Phil and black for me. #greatpenmanship #sukalaka #whenwewroteletters #not toomuchtoask #philtheworldwithlove #momsareawesome (at my memory)

[emmybarr]

I think I need @gordyhoffman to come and do #selfieclass with me... #selfiebeanie #whocomesupwiththisstuff #sukalaka (at Selfie Help)

[emmybarr]

Some of my all time favorite people all in one place. #blessed #sukalaka #childrenofalessergodzilla (at TAG Burger Bar)

[emmybarr]

Taking the train from DC to NYC. The world is green and the trains are fast. Playing two dots with my mom. Eating gyros and haribos with my kids. Walking to the food car for a cold Pepsi. #grateful #blessed #missingmadeline #sukalaka #philtheworldwithlove (at Amtrak Northeast Regional Train)

[emmybarr]

Happy Birthday to my best friend and my most amazing sister - laughing on a beach somewhere with you in my imagination today- most definitely not too much to ask! #sukalaka #bricabrac @penarrow124 and @gordyhoffman sharing a dog. #nottoomuchtoask (at my memory)