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Monday, November 15, 2004 |
Tonight I was listening to a story about a family with three young children
whose mother, father and stepfather are all being deployed in Iraq and
Afghanistan. The children will be at home being raised by their
grandmother. It was a heart wrenching story for me to listen
to. I got to a point where they had closed the door to the room
where they were doing the interviewing in and the youngest girl
literally cries out in terror because she can't see her mother for a
moment. The fear in her voice shook me to my core. As I
raise my daughters without a mother, I think about these children who
for at least some indeterminate time will be raised with no parents.
9:27:59 PM 
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"There are moments in time that are meant to be held
Like fragile, breakable things
There are others that pass us, you can't even tell
Such is their grace and their speed
And this one is gone in the blink of an eye
You can ask me the truth but tonight I will lie
Unflinching I'll tell you that I'm alone but not lonely"
Mary Chapin Carpenter
"Alone But Not Lonely"
2:10:49 PM
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"...he determined that the bright and happy children had only one thing in
common: All of them spent noticeable amounts of time staring peacefully
and wordlessly into space."
I really hope this
works for adults too. Sometimes I think my job description
includes 'staring peacefully and wordlessly into space' I have been
practicing for years :)
Actually some of my most relaxing moments come out on the front patio,
sitting quietly and still so that all the neighboring wildlife comes by
for a visit. As part of that I stare into the upper reaches of
the oaks out front trying to locate the small birds that like to light
up there. Am I brilliant, I sense that at those times, I
sometimes feel happy.
1:45:15 PM
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"For every heart there's a moment
For every hand, a glove
And for every woman,
a man to love
Where is she,
where is the one for me?"
For Every Man There's A Woman
11:14:03 AM
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© Copyright 2006 Rod Kratochwill.
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