Birthday————————- Chris Ritchey
August 21, 2011 at 12:02 am 7 comments
Through the glasses darkly – Chris Ritchey
Last year was the first we didn’t share -
we always shared this week with those that care -
an anniversay, your birthday and then mine-
so we would share our celebrations on one day – combined.
I wrote last year of your birthday-
http://thatwoman.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/birthday/
They say time heals and it gets easier- it doesn’t – I cry every single day with the missing of you , the ache of my being sometimes so overwhelming I can barely stand with the weight of it and these are my days and nights since the day you died. There is no celebration of life and love in this week just the need to get through and the welcoming love of a little boy who runs at life- just like you.
But cards have been sent- not to you – not to me- Your sister has sent once more a scholarship on this day to Lorain County Community College and thank you cards have been sent to those that have also remembered your life in this way .
http://thatwoman.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/chris-ritcheys-collage-colleges-scholarships-lccc-and-cia/
Your soccer buddies have come through with a very, very generous amount and a pledge to the scholarship in your name to Cleveland Institute of Art. –
A legacy on your birthday and memories of the happiness I once knew as I watched from the sidelines you and those young men in the FDNY shirts enjoying the sport – the laughter -the comraderie – mere echoes now -
A present purchased – the Miss Chris birthday present – over the top perhaps, but I don’t care and I knew you which one you would’ve chosen and as a little boy once more runs at the world – I remember 
BIRTHDAY………………………
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEADERSHIP AWARD- CHRIS RITCHEY
Debra L. Richter
Alumni and Scholarship Coordinator
Lorain County Community College Foundation
1005 N. Abbe Road
Elyria, OH 44035
440.366.7758 – Office
440.366.4078 – Fax
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART- CHRISTOPHER RITCHEY 2006
Michael Kinsella.
Cleveland Institute of Art,
11141 East Boulevard,
Cleveland, OH 44106
216.421.7412 or mkinsella@cia.edu
Entry filed under: Chris Ritchey, death, grief, Love, Mothers. Tags: death, Love, mothers and sons.
1. Kelly Boyer Sagert | August 21, 2011 at 12:46 pm
That’s wonderful about the scholarship . . . wish I could make things better for you.
2. Loraine Ritchey | August 21, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Thanks Kelly I wish so too.I don’t recognize me anymore………. yes thanks to some great guys and others we should be able to continue the scholarship for 4 or 5 years so far……… at CIA
3. denise aka mozart | August 21, 2011 at 1:19 pm
We all have a story to tell…don’t we..as life touches all of us in diffeirent ways,,but we all have footprints.
I hope with time Loraine….as I always say…hope a hope.
4. Lisa | August 21, 2011 at 11:41 pm
I wish I knew what to say.
♥ Birthday, Chris.
You are loved and missed.
Sending much love and peaceful thoughts your way, Loraine.
5. Henery | August 24, 2011 at 1:11 am
Been thinkin’ of you, even if I haven’t been emailing.
Need to get together soon.
Henery
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