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Week 26: Adele’s favorite memory and Introduction to Caleb Lennon. Get your Kleenex ready. 😭 ​⁠​⁠‪@thecalebeffect3331‬
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Adele was everything. She was beautiful and hilarious just the way I’d seen her on TV. She gave us fair warning asking us “Are you ready to go on an emotional journey with me tonight? Cause I’m going to drag you through your emotional dirt. I’m going to break you. I’m going to make you laugh while you’re doing it.” Damn. I couldn’t have written a more accurate description.

Thank you, ​⁠‪@adele‬ for your empathy and compassion. It is something we will remember forever. I’m still in a state of shock and gratitude. After losing your only child, it is difficult to feel like a mother. In addition to giving me a huge hug, thank you from the bottom of my heart for dedicating “Rolling in the Deep” to “Caleb’s mummy.” I had to ask the woman sitting beside me if that’s what Adele really said. Adele, you may never truly know what it means to hear this or to receive that much genuine kindness and motherly outpouring of support. I am not someone who typically shows emotion in public but you were right. The emotional journey was overwhelming in the best kind of way. You also told us “I promise we are going to have a really fun, good, sad time.” Mission accomplished. Thank you.

The song says “but if by chance you’re here alone.” I WAS there by myself but I know I’m never truly ever alone. Caleb is larger than the life we live on this planet. I will continue taking him everywhere I go, both with his picture as well as his little red truck vroom vroom that was in my purse when we lost him. He is a forever piece of me and I of him. As my message to him at his service said he is “my gift, my light, my treasure.” I didn’t win any money this weekend but Adele herself got an introduction to the wisest human I’ve ever met. On the 9th and everything (https://thecalebeffect.org/kindness). Maybe luck has nothing to do with it after all.

“Can I have a moment, before I go?” Yes, yes, you can and you did, and I will never be the same. You gave Caleb a moment and so much more. “When We Were Young” we didn’t know of all the purest love with radiant blue eyes and an infectious smile. We didn’t know how happy he could make us just by jumping on our backs and pretending to fly across the living room. We didn’t know of this thing called SUDC (https://sudc.org) that still hasn’t been researched enough to provide a way to predict or prevent it’s horror. We could never imagine the pain of waking up to a world without our son’s physical presence.

Still, there is one thing that not even “that” day can steal. Caleb left the world more love than we probably deserve. He gave us a master class in connecting with people and loving them exactly as they are intended to be loved. Many have asked what I gave Adele. The card I gave her has his picture and says “Caleb smiled with his whole face & loved unconditionally with his whole heart. He never knew a stranger & gave love freely to everyone he met. Caleb is still making the world a better place. Embrace Caleb’s effect in your own life: Do something kind for someone else today. Say “I love you” & mean it. Forgive. Don’t wait #calebeffect

Borrowed from Heaven 2/9/14

Returned 5/2/16

The Caleb Effect
https://thecalebeffect.org

(Sorry in advance for the camera angle! I was trying to keep a battery pack connected as well as see Adele through my own eyes instead of through my phone.)