Ashes
Relief commingled with grief choked in my throat, as I held back the bitter emotions when she spoke the long-expected yet unwelcome words.
“It’s over. He’s gone.”
Sweet Sixteen
It’s said that time heals all wounds, though this is no guarantee. While I was not the wounded party, we could only hope this would hold true for the trauma our children might have experienced, even as we learned to become the parents they needed, albeit imperfectly.
Reconstruction
2023 will go down as the year the warranty on my personal health expired.
Mileage
Plan and hope for the best, but be prepared for the fact that expectations you have long had for your own personal standards of success may need to be jettisoned in order to redefine what success is for your kids.
Picture of a Pandemic
More than a picture . . . it’s a critical lesson for times of trouble or misfortune. Joy is present and available if you choose it.
Legacy
I had not considered it before, but legacy, I realized, isn’t something that is necessarily left behind at the moment we pass out of this life . . .
Library Stories: Astronauts
As I removed and laid out each of the remaining prints, I was delighted to find that Al had decided to do me one better.
Maw
A scan of the room, sermonic words aside, was more than enough to inform that this person’s life mattered, that her time was very well-spent not in insular pursuits, as we are typically encouraged to pursue in life, especially American cultural life, but in the interest and care of others.
Past Time Pastime
It’s not always about the platform for the memories, as in this case, baseball, but about how the memories made us feel.
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