Brent Ganger

She helped us grow.

She helped us believe in ourselves.

She helped us see the good, even when life felt heavy.

Renee is not gone from us.

She's in the light that finds us on hard days.

She's in the resilience we didn't know we had until we needed it.

She's in the laughter, the memories, the love that continues to grow.

Like dandelions, like sunlight, and like Renee.

Thank you.

These encounters with federal agents are changing the community and changing many lives, including ours, forever.

There are billions of people who now know her name, and it would be so easy to fall into the false belief that great heroic things are required to overcome difficult things in the world.

But as Tolkien wrote, it is the small, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay.

Small acts of kindness and love.