When Kalena first passed away, I was so desperate to for any sort of sign or symbol that Kalena was near by. I have seen people connect through feather, butterflies, dragonflies, humming birds and so many other things. Days and days passed and try as I might, there was no sign or symbol that felt like Kalena. This was devastating to endure as I was trying to navigate my grief. I wondered if she was mad at me and didn’t want to show me she was there. I questioned if she existed in another place. I would feel anger towards her for not giving me a sign. The emotions I endured were so painful on top of the fact that my daughter has just died, and I felt so unloved and unworthy and like a failure as a mother.
One day I was at American Lake on the base in Washington, I spent many days at this lake after Kalena passed. It was a place of solitude and a place where I would go and just cry and scream, and just sit and watch the days pass. Well this one evening I was sitting on my little beach blanket watching the sun go down, and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I am watching the beautiful sun set over the water, and I knew that Kalena had painted the sky for me that night. My connection to sunsets was an immediate thing, and whenever I see a beautiful sunset I have to tell anyone and everyone around me that Kalena was the one putting in mad work to make our skies beautiful, and then I make them say thank you to her! She has to receive recognition when the sunsets are beautiful. The beauty of the sunsets also remind me of how beautiful she was (not that I could forget, but it is a nice reminder).
The Signature Sunset collection is a way to keep Kalena near me always, and the nice thing about this collection is that it can speak to you in a completely different way, but still holds the same significance. I hope that you can find a connection through this collection. I hope it can speak to you in whatever way that you need. I hope it can hit you like a ton of bricks!