On February 22, 2013 I saw a story on TV about Zach Sobiech - who... if you don't know his story - you should...
After watching his music video online and logging into CaringBridge, I quickly went to iTunes and downloaded "Clouds", the song Zach wrote. It's on my iPod now. I subscribed to his moms' CB updates so that I could keep track of him - hoping upon unrealistic hope that there might be good news to report along the way.
This is the original video that prompted me to download the song:
Then on May 5th - Zach's mom posted that he had celebrated his 18th birthday AND made it to prom on May 4th. Sooo... that's good news - right?
But on Monday, May 20th - the Twitterverse blew up with the news that Zach had died that morning. And that made me sad... I was surprised by all of the tweets from people I know that didn't know about this or hadn't heard this story yet - but then, not everyone watches ESPN either and that's where I first saw the story.
Fast forward to this morning. I woke up at 5:10 A.M. Why? I don't know. Insane for a Saturday. I went and fed the hounds at 5:36 A.M. Why? Because Boone would have wet himself if I didn't. When I came back up and crawled into bed - I picked up my iPhone that iLove and checked email, the Spokesman, UStream and the baby eaglets in MN, Instagram and then The Twitter.
In short order - I was bawling. Bawling - by this new video that I hadn't seen yet but that the Huffington Post had tweeted.
This is 22 minutes of your life - but it's a very, very worthy 22 minutes.
The Dad asked me, while still mostly asleep if I was crying and I sniffled as he rolled over and started snoring again. Uhhh... gee... thanks for your compassion, dear. But then, really... The Dad and I had never spoken of Zach Sobiech so I almost preferred this moment to myself AND not having to explain it to The Dad.
So The Dad gets home from playing racquetball this morning and I was busy restoring an iPod and old iPhone and The Dad asked me what video was I watching this morning that had me crying. So...
WOTY: "Oh. Just a thing on Zach Sobiech" (assuming he knew the story, even though we'd never spoken of it)
The Dad: "Who?"
WOTY: "Zach Sobiech. You know... the kid that wrote the song Clouds."
The Dad: "Huh uh. What song?"
WOTY: (Becoming less wife-of-the-year like) I plug in my iPod to the external speakers and play him Clouds. Then I tried with less patience to find the original video that made me download the song - but fearing he would start tapping away on his computer I just made him watch the second one above. And I cried again.
So we clicked and tapped here a bit more and found the video that the family watches - that was put together by celebrities:
Which is so. very. cool. And after I walked away... The Dad watched it again. And then I watched it... again.
"What makes you happy... is seeing someone else smile because you put it there."
- Zach Sobiech
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