“You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.” -Florida Scott Maxwell I spent the afternoon visiting with my brother and sister-in-law. They live about an hour away from us, but […]
“Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinctions between past, present, and future ultimately meaningless; to enable us at some level of our being to inhabit that same eternity which it is said God himself inhabits.” -Frederick Buechner I’ve shared this quote before, and as it happens to be written […]
July is birthday month at our house. Annie and Pearl, even as infants, always seemed to have not one but three or four birthday parties, and this year has been no exception. Yesterday was the big party here — Bruce and I cooked (hamburgers made with organic farm beef), and generally stayed in the background. I went […]
Nineteen years ago — at this very time, by the way — my daughters Annie and Pearl were born. Annie was born first, at 6:40, if I remember right. Then Pearl, at 7:06. “To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. […]