On Sunday, after attending the After Hours event, I went to the wake for the father of a friend. The holy card struck me as a source of solace, and this is what it said: When through one man a little more love and goodness, a little more light and truth come into the world then that man's life has had meaning. … [Read more...]
Amen
Howard Zinn
"And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” Howard Zinn This Slice of Solace came to me through FB posts of Thomas G. Fiffer and Stacy Kamala Waltman --thanks! … [Read more...]
Carol Shields
"They know after all this time about love--that it's dim and unreliable and little more than a reflection on the wall. It is also capricious, idiotic, sentimental, imperfect and inconstant, and most often seems to be the exclusive preserve of others. Sitting around in a room that was slowly growing dark, they found themselves wishing they could measure its pure anchoring force or account for its random visitations. Of course they could not--which was why, after a time, they … [Read more...]
Psalm 30:5
"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." … [Read more...]
Deborah Morris Coryell
For instance, if I find myself thinking that I will never see my father again and I notice a profound sadness, I pay attention to what comes next. If I continue to deepen into the loss in such a way that I suffer more and more deeply, I take a deep breath. I acknowledge the absence that his death brings me. But I also acknowledge the many ways in which I continue to feel him, hear him, see him. In one such moment, I come to realize that although my father has been dead for … [Read more...]
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