True Colors

It doesn't happen often that I am short on words or thoughts, opinions or memories.  But yesterday I was told that legal counsel had been obtained to stop the sale of the "Sarah's T's" that have been created to be sold to people who want to hold with them a piece of their treasured friend, sister, cousin, daughter, niece, granddaughter, classmate, roommate, member of her community. The people that have the shirts - love them.  When people ask them about the shirts, the person wearing it has that moment to memorialize her, to tell someone how great this young woman was... is - eternally.  It's a gift for that person to remember, and a gift for the other to "see" what Sarah meant to the one wearing the shirt.  That's priceless.

 

You know what else is priceless?  The opportunity for someone at Mt. Baker High School to receive THE "Sarah Baisden Scholarship".  Eff ya.

The proceeds of the shirts are going to a scholarship in her name at the high school she attended.  The problem the person has is that the checks are currently being made out to her dad, (of which he has yet to deposit any of them) as he was waiting to hear from the school the tax ID info/process, so that he could open up an account to deposit the checks into.  This person feels that Sarah's dad is trying to steal money, or capitalize on his daughters death. For a man who raised his daughters alone for the last 5 years, always provided for them - be it a stable home, roof over their heads, food on the table, car insurance, cell phones, clothing, dental appointments, hair appointments, proms, travel, cars... and all that us girls "require" on a day to day basis - this is beyond ridiculous.  This isn't a man who has shirked responsibility or withheld anything from anyone.  His family are hard working, people serving folk.  A community that takes care of those who need it.  So the idea that someone thinks him to be so unsavory is laughable.  

What I find more pathetic is the fact that an attorney actually took on the case:

Attorney:  So... you want to sue them for trying to raise money to go into a scholarship in Sarah's name?

Claimant:  Yes.

Attorney:  Yah... I totally agree.  What a scumbag.  Sign here.

It's like a friend said... "You can't win with a person like that.  Once this ends, it will be something else.  Mental illness is what it is.  Sad.  Super sad."

Sad indeed.