Tag Archives: love

Common occurrences

Last night, looking at the sample colors on our walls, I remembered that when a good friend of mine lost her mother last winter, she also painted.  There seems to be a common need to be purposeful in the face of grief, the primal understanding that certain things can and should be tended to, things [...]

Small consolations

I found this nearly empty bag of Twizzlers in my daughter’s room after my parents left this weekend.  Several days earlier, I had myself bought a bag of favorite Red Bites, seeing as food wasn’t really happening for me, but candy would do the trick.  The day my folks arrived for Evan’s memorial service, my [...]