I miss our old staff. There are so many wonderful people who have worked in the foundation and then moved on – too many to list, really, and with my memory, I’m sure to forget someone absolutely crucial.

But they all live on in my dreams and they all pop up from places as far away as new Zealand and Milwaukee and Vishakapatnam and Jaipur and Chennai – they send messages on facebook and gmail and they call out of the blue and send boxes of things for Rainbow Resale and donations for the calendar and in some ways it feels like they haven’t really left at all. But I still miss them.

One of my favorite parts of staying in touch with them all is the baby pictures. They have the most beautiful babies. This is Gunjan’s baby boy, her sunshine, she says, though when she called a few days ago from the US where she is living, she said I could have him if I wanted because her husband was away, her mother-in-law had just left and little Mr Sunshine wasn’t sleeping a whole lot.

Gunjan was my Executive Assistant many years ago. She joined just as we were embarking on our first Advisory Committee meeting and she dived into the deep end and pulled the whole thing off without a hitch and it was love at first sight for both of us. That was in 2003 and she is still in touch, visiting me when I happen to be in a town near her, coming to Dehradun whenever she can, calling, writing, sending photos.

The Foundation is about much more than the daily passion for kids with disability. It’s also about relationships, about working together, about sharing stories and accomplishments and new dreams and ideas. And about babies.

Gunjan, I just want to say that I’ll take him. Send that little Sunshine across and you get a good night’s sleep.