Category: family
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When we looked up on a morning walk at Mount Pisgah, we saw the sun making a fine spectacle of itself just before it cleared the fir trees. I’m no photographer; I just cart around an ordinary i-phone, but the grace of nature and technology gave me this picture. I am so grateful for grace,…
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It’s dark now at 6 a.m. Summer has flown by, rich in big moments for my family — love and death and tenderness. And all around us, as always, the great cacophony of the world. Autumn’s coming, chill mornings, heavier skies. Before letting summer go I want to savor a few moments, not the big…
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Losing a loved one opens up space and closes space too. For me there has been a lot of tidying. A drawer here, a closet there. And shoved into the back of a drawer, I came across a folded paper. No surprise there. It was a sweet gift from past me to future me, a…