01/06/2026
It’s been a year where Gordon & Shirley lost their beloved Knolls Pharmacy-the business, their livelihood, their customers who were friends, their community.
During the year, we truly found out how special our community was and what everyone really meant to us. In coffee, lunch and dinner meetings, to try and make sense of the devastation we all went through, we discovered true and deep friendships, we discovered that together we had the strength to carry on one way or another-by one pushing the other or just listening and hugging, or just to sit in silence but in the company of each other; someone who knew what we were feeling and thinking, though we couldn’t say it, because it was weird to even hear it ourselves from our own brains and hearts.
It’s been a year, some are rebuilding, some have moved, some are still deciding and some of us are just waiting- for what I don’t know- for “something to fall into our laps”because we are tired, it’s been a year…of finding new spaces, fighting with insurance, figuring out “stuff” and everything in between that everyone had to deal with.
We wish everyone luck and strong health and lots of love and tenacity to keep moving forward and do what you need to do. Knolls may not be here for now, but Gordon & Shirley is still here as friends to you all😍😍