samhur:

So today, I woke up very early. It was an extra special day. I was going to go to Einstein’s to be one of the first 100 customers and get a free super special mug and have unlimited free coffee for the rest of the year until June.

So I got there. And found. Countless people standing, and on the…

“There are three black and white photographs of my dad that tell the story of the last few years. My brother, Andy, took them, and they are both beautiful and brutal.

The first one is of my dad on an August day in 2008. He’s standing in a lake in the Adirondack Mountains. Because of his tremors he’s down to 130 pounds from his normal weight of 170.

“He looks like he’s out of a concentration camp, he does,” my dad says about the person in the photo. “Nothing I ate, nothing I did, helped me put on weight, because it all went out through my tremors…