Before revealing today’s giveaway winner — a gift to all, via Youtube. A video that combines both the spirit of the Bane Bane Game and the attitude of worship in everyday places that we have pursued this week. When was the last time you heard the adulation “King of...
Livi and Baney: bathtime smooches “Mama,” said Livi, placing one tiny finger to her dimpled cheek. Splats of green jello smeared high chair tray before her, but she leaned in earnest, like one who knows a secret. “Bane Bane is my best friend.” these words …...
photo credit here cemeteries aren’t for smiling. crying? absolutely. sniffling? sure. tearing out of hair and gnashing of teeth? I can imagine. but not smiling. except for this one day … night, actually. I was, clichéd but true, “in the neighborhood,” attending visitation at a funeral home...
the driver of a station wagon littered with bumper stickers, burden-light, who let you cut over so that you could make your left turn. the old man, moving slow, who held the door open with shaky hand, humbly insisting that you enter first. the teacher, full of Monday but still wearing smile, who...
photo credit here This post, pulled from a crackling phone line in a conversation with Sonya … who, like all of us — and yet, not quite like most of us — has good days and bad. This story starts on one of the bad … i couldn’t eat my food. could not touch one bite. ...
breath mints are small things. you package them with bottled water, scented candles, and cleaning supplies and it still doesn’t add up to much, really. unless the people on the receiving end of them have just experienced this… … have just watched a life-altering tragedy flash by...
“I want to go and talk with her.” “You want to do what?””I want to talk to her. She has lost a son, too. Maybe there’s something I can do or say to help her.” Her words stunned. Stunned. How could she, who had just felt...
“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in...
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