We are starting 2019 out with a BANG! Busy planning our spectacular 3rd Annual Film Showcase on March 9th. Hard to believe that I simply wanted to share my little movie LIGHT three years ago. That desire turned into a Film Showcase which morphed into a Film Showcase Networking Event at Resolution Studios and sponsored by Cinespace Film Studios. Kinda crazy. Each year more people join our forces to become bigger and better. Our second little movie, THE FOLLOWER shall premier this year. Yay!.
We are also busy planning lots of events at Maine West High School. This was the high school Patrick would have attended. His sister Zoe is a Freshman there and his many friends go there. This year Maine West picked Patrick Lives On as their schoolwide fundraiser. We are overjoyed about it. It shall be a tool of healing for the students, for all who knew him and for our entire community.
Patrick would have been a senior this year. He would be planning for college and getting excited about Prom, etc. He would be working a job and probably getting in a fair bit of high school type trouble. He would have been looking out for his kid sister and helping his father and me around the house. He would have been hanging with his three dogs and hanging in his room.
He still is. He is here. He lives on in the hundreds of kids we have helped. He lives on in the messages of hope we share through our Public Service Announcements and Short Films. He lives on in all the kids who receive The Patrick Boswell Courage Award. He lives on in my heart and my soul and it gives me the strength and determination and desire to do what it right and what will make a difference. His departure shocked me into opening my eyes really really wide. To see it all and enjoy it all and to be grateful for it all. To take the humungous amount of love in my heart and to spread it out.
Aaannndddd . . . all of you people helping and supporting and listening and caring are my backbone, my iron-rod that keeps me erect when I get tired and stumble.
Yes, contrary to popular belief, sometimes I actually do get tired. lol.
Hang on cause 2019 is going to be quite a ride. We. are. just. getting. started!!! I thank and appreciate you all. It is a New Year. I am filled with New Energy and New Hope.
Viva Le Patrick!!!!!