Dragonfly Wings for Emmalee

The cancer was taking its toll on her frail body. Smiling proved difficult on that warm August morning as she posed with our family for what were to be our last photographs taken together. Suddenly, a dragonfly appeared and hovered directly above her head as she sat perched in a swing. She giggled. “I can feel the wind of its wings on my head. It tickles.” A tiny dragonfly lifted her spirits that day.

Emmalee’s life and death moved people to action. Her school raised a state record of $6,243...