Posts Tagged ‘Challenges’
Send In The Clowns
When I see him walk with a limp, my stomach tightens with an ache. His limp means he’s in pain, hurting, and there’s nothing I can do to make it better. I like to fix things, and I can’t fix him. Maybe I wouldn’t feel this way if it were only a limp. Maybe.…
Read MoreLife On A Limb
Life on a Limb Life is precarious, like living on the slender limb of a tree. Most of the time we don’t know this. Once death moves closer, there’s no escaping this fragile truth. Death moved into our home again three weeks ago tomorrow. Bob started out the morning fine, even declared he…
Read MoreWhen the Light Is Gone
In the darkness, what I couldn’t see began to clear and take form. Perhaps life is like this—absence tells us what is important. There is a fullness in those empty spaces made visible in the dark. Change and transition. Light to dark and perhaps to light if I pay heed. Waking up into a darkness…
Read MoreWe Go On
August 30, 2019 We go on with our days Slower now, more mindful, Yet in a numbness as though nothing really happened. And then I’ll look over at him, asleep in the afternoon. He’s tired in a way he never was before because he’s healing, And I realize we’re not the same. And I…
Read MoreAre Blog Themes Necessary?
Are Blog Themes Necessary? I’ve heard that a blog should have a theme and every post should relate to that theme. But I don’t live by one theme. Or if I do, it’s a series of revolving themes depending on the challenges and delights in my everyday life. I’ve also heard that the blog…
Read MorePractice
September 2, 2018 It’s all practice. Everything that happens to us is practice for some future thing that will happen. Practice. I’m in a practice round right now. Nothing dire. Nothing life-threatening, but enough to be a lesson to practice. Like I practiced the piano. Like I learned one easy piece at a time,…
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