Every two years at our school we have a charity event called the Empty Bowls Dinner. For this dinner, the art students make pottery. We mold bowls, and plates, and platters. This year we are doing a pasta pottluck dinner. Anything made with pasta can be brought, and eaten in one of the bowls, or on one of the plates, that each person buys when they come in. They can take these bowls home with them. All proceeds go to the South Jersey Foodbank.
The dinner is on Febuary 9th. This year it will also be 5 years since my friend Kaela Beth DeJesus passed away. She died on February 8, 2008. I only knew Kaela for about a year and a half. In sixth grade we had every class together, and we became really good friends. She was the kind of person who would do anything to help another person, and she had an extremely kind heart. Kaela also loved the arts, whethe it was visual or performing arts. She played violin, and loved to act in the plays and musicals at school. Kaela was always drawing. Sitting next to her in most of our classes provided me with a good view of the sketches she drew in her notebook. She was good. Kaela, like me also had a very crazy side to her, and we often shared good laughs. I know that the Empty Bowls Dinner would have been something that Kaela would have loved to do, and so I dedicate all of the bowls I made to her. To her kind heart, and gentle spirit. To her crazy side that always made me laugh. And of course to the person she never got a chance to be. Kaela Beth DeJesus, I miss you.
The dinner is on Febuary 9th. This year it will also be 5 years since my friend Kaela Beth DeJesus passed away. She died on February 8, 2008. I only knew Kaela for about a year and a half. In sixth grade we had every class together, and we became really good friends. She was the kind of person who would do anything to help another person, and she had an extremely kind heart. Kaela also loved the arts, whethe it was visual or performing arts. She played violin, and loved to act in the plays and musicals at school. Kaela was always drawing. Sitting next to her in most of our classes provided me with a good view of the sketches she drew in her notebook. She was good. Kaela, like me also had a very crazy side to her, and we often shared good laughs. I know that the Empty Bowls Dinner would have been something that Kaela would have loved to do, and so I dedicate all of the bowls I made to her. To her kind heart, and gentle spirit. To her crazy side that always made me laugh. And of course to the person she never got a chance to be. Kaela Beth DeJesus, I miss you.
Such a thoughtful post. You write with such a kind, genuine and clear heart. Thank you for the warm reminder of Kaela's presence in our school and in this event. Cracks and all, you're just right.
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