What is a flower walk? When Jackson was a toddler (and an early riser), we would often go on “flower walks” around our Green Lake neighborhood to pass the time, and experience the world through Jackson’s eyes. We would smell flowers, blow on the dandelion “puffballs”, and look for bunnies along the way.
Every September, we come together and remember him as we do a walk of our own in his honor. We not only smell the flowers for Jackson, but we also raise money and awareness for Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC), while performing acts of kindness in his honor. It has been a very special tradition to host Jackson’s Flower Walk in his memory.
We always do this walk on a weekend around his birthday (September 11) and death anniversary (September 20). This year, we’ll be walking on Saturday, September 20.
9:30am Saturday, September 20, 2025 at Green Lake Park
We don’t have an exact timeline for the order of these events, but typically we mingle for a bit at the start, share a few words around 9:45, and take a group photo before taking off around the lake.
The walk is open to anybody who wants to honor Jackson’s memory; if you’re attending in-person, 🌸🌸🌸 please RSVP below so we can have a (rough) headcount. 🌸🌸🌸 We’ll have some light snacks available, but please bring your own water/drinks!
We’ll meet in the same spot as last year - just north of the Green Lake Aqua Theatre.
Please take a photo along the way and share it with us by texting/emailing it to Natalia or Bryan. We plan to post them on the website, so please let us know if you’d rather we don’t.
What to Wear
Since many folks already have shirts, feel free to reuse apparel from previous years, or wear something royal-blue, pink, or floral.
If you’d like to order a shirt (we also have hats, mugs, and water bottles), you can find them at https://www.bonfire.com/store/jackson-flower-walk/ - all proceeds go to the SUDC Foundation.
RSVP here:
Supporting the SUDC Foundation
The SUDC Foundation is an organization dedicated to research, advocacy, and support for families affected by Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood. To-date, and with your help, we've raised more than $20,000 for this wonderful organization that we’d be lost without.
In that time, your support has helped the SUDC Foundation to:
pass into law Scarlett’s Sunshine Act, which improves nationwide standards for investigating and collecting data to better track, understand, and prevent pediatric death,
publish a book providing procedural guidance for investigation, autopsy and ancillary testing, certification and reporting, and key considerations for prevention, research and working with family members and other professional team members,
publish peer-reviewed scientific articles, with findings from the SUDC Research and Registry Collaborative (RRC), to improve and disseminate scientific understanding of SUDC,
support hundreds more families who have lost a child - sadly, including some in our larger community - we are grateful to be able to refer them to such a helpful organization,
foster community for SUDC families, including a new social-network, an annual retreat, and more.
This year, we are again using a GoFundMe, which will send the donations directly to the SUDC Foundation. You can visit at the button below.
