All the Things That Matter Blog

I Just Don’t Know

I saw the picture of a little boy whose life ended in water, a failed attempt by his refugee family to find a place of openness. He was the same size as my Timmy. And I cried for him, for orphans in Africa, for little boys and girls in the States who will not...

Little Things

The opening to an article I read recently referred to the explosion of the Challenger Space Shuttle. He said this: After months of investigation, here’s what the Rogers Commission…discovered: an o-ring seal in the right solid rocket booster failed at take-off. I won’t bore you with the details, but an o-ring is a small...

Howling

Everyone else got a piece of mail. Except her (and Timmy, but oddly enough, he didn’t count into her equation). So she was howling. Head tipped back, mouth open, letting loose an ear-splitting, can’t-be-heard-over-it, stream of sound. Now this is not an unusual sound for my four-year-old to make these days. It typically results...

What Can We Do?

On the first week of summer (Or was it last Saturday?) The kids all were moaning and starting to say.   To the mom as she worked scrubbing toilets and floor, “What can we do now? We need something more!”   “What can you do?” Said the mother, surprised. Were the children so soon...

To Whomever You Are

I don’t know your name yet. Or maybe I do, and I’m still unaware of it. But I’m waiting for you. You, my friend. It’s been a long time of just circling, waiting, sometimes (mostly) less than patiently, for you to arrive. My next real friend. I had to move, you see, to set my...

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