March is birthday month is the Miller home. March 10th is Anna's day! She is 24 this year! We always tended to celebrate Anna and Sam's days together. As March nears it is hard not to feel the bittersweetness of joy at Anna's birthday and missing Sam. We are rejoicing in all that Anna is accomplishing! She has been our joy and we have not always been as good at letting her know this in the midst of the chaos of our life!
Anna deployed to Afghanistan in early February. She is a combat medic. This also made it harder to rejoice. Being so far away from her is beyond challenging! Knowing that she and Steven are far away from one another so early in marriage is hard for them! Dave and I spent much of our early years with Navy deployments so they have our empathy! We are proud of both of them!
Sam's birthday is March 23. We celebrated by holding a concert in conjunction with the Candlelight Concerts for Epilepsy Awareness. We have a lovely crowd of 49 people at Victoria Station Cafe. Caleb Cooper and friend Luke played, Papa Joe DeMaio, and Kala Farnham played wondrously! We had time to share a bit about epilepsy during the breaks. Abby Maerkle also sang!
We are planning two more concerts in coming months. One for the summer and another for November.
We have a special presentation with Dr. Steven Schachter date to be determined about Art and Epilepsy! This is an amazing presentation!
PTT will participate in Particle Accelorator once more on June 8!!
Birthdays celebrate another year that has passed and preparation for the future. Our future includes needs for funding to continue working with clients who are desperate for help! An aggressive campaign will also begin for research funding apart from those needs for $50,000. This research will be in suicide in epilepsy.
Thank you for your continued interest in our organization!
Ginny M
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