As a child, I never understood how one could describe pain. Words like sharp, stabbing, aching. How could I know what I felt was sharp or stabbing? How do we know that what one describes as sharp another might not describe as aching? And isn’t grief a bit like this? Each of us has or will experience it in our lifetime. But how each one of us feels and describes those feelings is always different.
A little over 12 years ago, I read the CS Lewis book “A Grief Observed” for the first time. It was March and my husband and I went away for a few nights. My brother Chris had been very sick for a while and there was nothing to be done. After a life full of... Continue Reading →
Can we do better?
Tonight, President Obama said “we can do better” as he talked about the two recent shootings of black men by police officers. As he said this, I thought “Can we do better?” My daughter said to me “Why does everyone say we need to do better? It’s too much pressure and when people tell us... Continue Reading →