It’s easy to get caught up in the hectic pace of the holiday season. We host parties. We worry about having too many plans – or that we don’t have any plans at all. We wonder who we will see during the holidays – will far away family come home this year? We think of ways we can make our festivities better or more nostalgic. We look for the perfect present, or we procrastinate and end up trying to find any present.
Category: Insight
Moving Forward While Glancing Back
I looked at the jacket. If I took it, I’d just hang it in a closet at the nursing home. It would sit in the dark, smelling of mothballs until I died. Then Sarah would donate it right back to the same rack. History dies when you lock it away.
Trading Places
Her body is betraying her inch by inch, turning into a concrete prison while her brilliant mind screams from inside, fully aware, fully alive. I watch her cry every day over some fresh loss – a hand that won’t grip, a step she can’t take, a breath that comes harder than the last.