She wanted to tell you herself. Mary — our big sister, our formulator, our visionary, the reason any of this exists — recorded a message from our Rose Cottage in Beverly on the South Side of Chicago. She wanted you to hear it directly from her, in her own words, in her own voice.
We'll let her speak for herself. Press play.
I have something important and personal to share with you, and I want you to hear it from me directly.
Mary had a stroke last Tuesday at 7 p.m. as we sat down to dinner. She couldn't see Annie seated to her right and, as her eyes filled with terror, she couldn't get the words out to tell me what was wrong. The paramedics arrived quickly. While we were en route to our local hospital, she couldn't recognize the names of close friends.
As the ambulance drove with sirens blaring, I held her hand with one hand and with the other sent messages to as many people as I could reach - our book club, friends in Italy, my personal "prayer request" group on Messenger - and an urgent and cryptic Facebook post to family and friends: "Pray for Mary. In ambulance now. Please God."
Dear Friends,
Every day is Earth Day for the Duggan Sisters and that’s the way we like it.
From our simple turn-of-the-century Worker’s Cottage on the Southside of Chicago - where we have lived happily above the shop for 15+ years - we have built our brand from a singular premise: you can not maintain a healthy body on a sick planet. And so we rise each day, firing up one HVAC system, not three, and working to maintain the smallest possible carbon footprint as we go about the business of being a business, working to make a real difference for both people and planet.