Maisa Rose McCall - Obituary

October 9, 2009 - November 2, 2023

Maisa entered our lives on a fall Friday morning and departed on a fall Friday morning. Fourteen earthly years was not enough with our beautiful, precious, sensitive, and spirited daughter. She was the only daughter to Samia and James, and loved being a younger sister to Conor and eventually an older sister to Sawyer. She was full of joy and curiosity for the majority of her years; she loved learning, reading, and outer space, which may have started with a love of Buzz Lightyear during her toddler years. She also loved art, music, learning about history, and spending time in the great outdoors with her family. Some of her happiest moments were spent camping and playing in the dirt and mud. This included recent trips to visit volcanoes, hunt for star garnets, and watch an annular solar eclipse. She cared deeply for her family and friends, animals, and the planet. Her sarcastic wit was drier than the Sahara Desert. 

Her head was full of facts, knowledge and feelings about the world. Unfortunately, at some point during the cross section of the COVID-19 pandemic and puberty her beautiful mind became her worst enemy. Her brilliant brain combined with the most sensitive and empathetic heart found the world that we currently live in to be intolerable. Her acute perception meant she could see and feel things that most of us could not. The polarization and suffering of the world weighed heavily on her. As much as we tried to help her channel her many gifts for the greater good, it breaks our hearts to know that ultimately we were unable to save her.

If we could make her legacy one thing it would be this: be the good you want to see in the world. Start in your own heart. How can you cultivate kindness? How can you make the world a little bit better? Plant that seed and then spread it. This is how we create the world that she would have wanted to live in. This is how we prevent suicide. Advertising a help line is not enough, and if she were here she would tell you that too. Grow kindness in your heart, spread it to your neighbor, and when you look up in wonder at the celestial beauty of the night sky, please think of Maisa.  

She leaves a deep chasm in the hearts of her family and friends that can never be filled. The world is a darker place without her light.