Grandpa's most recent lucid moment, I believe, was several weeks ago, when they were returned to their cabin on the river from the hospital, where they had been evacuated because of fires. While they were there, he was disoriented and angry and lost (and who can blame him? They have known for years that they would die on the river); he slammed ( Read more... )

- the bird feeders ( Read more... )

- "the dish ( Read more... )

My grandma just died an hour ago. I think they're planning to wait the services until Grandpa goes too ( Read more... )

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded in mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

--Harry Emerson Fosdick

"... the kind of all-embracing love evident in Mother Teresa's prayer, 'May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.' Not just her fellow nuns, Catholics, Calcuttans, potential converts. The whole world ( Read more... )

If you find yourself short of inspiration: check out grannyd.com. Make certain to read some speeches. "Old Elijah's Tree" is particularly wonderful for the spiritually inclined who feel spent and against the ropes-- and all of them are just terrific.

Every morning for the next couple of weeks I get to tape my tibia and fibula together before I put any weight on my right foot. It's kind of cool, actually, but it would be cooler if I never woke up at 3:00 to pee.

As they struggle with the slayings, the Amish in this Lancaster County village are turning the other cheek, urging forgiveness of the killer and quietly accepting what comes their way as God's will ( Read more... )

and like a bomb: sadness ( Read more... )