Running Rebel & Mad Dog Isobella Jade

Isobella shares a story about faith and her father after his death, and how transitions in life can inspire unexpected healing, as she welcomes a new state and the south into her life. She asks herself, "What do these heirlooms mean, why did I take them, why are they special."

Isobella reflects on her father's sports jacket that she found in his car after he died in a propane explosion and fire at his home, "smelling the jacket the reality of what happened sliced the core of me, he could never wear this sports jacket again. If there hadn't been a fire....and there wasn't a process to legally identify him..and there had been a funeral, I might have ask the funeral director for him to wear this jacket."

Isobella shares how finding a pocketknife in her father's car after he died reminded her of being 12 years old when her father gave her his old pocketknife back then, and the meaning of the memory it holds.

Isobella shares how sentimental handwriting can be of someone who has passed. She examines her father's clipboard and other artifacts with his handwriting.

Isobella shares a story about her father's rings, A story about grief, hope and belief, coupling the items she found at her father's car after he died, the rings narrative shares a connection she felt with her father during a troubling time.

Isobella shares a few memories that spring up from looking at her father's Giants hat that she found in his car after he died in a fire and propane explosion. The hat reminds her of running in high school and the time her father saw her run and the times he hadn't in an emotional narrative of grief, loss, and wanting to strive.