Be a candle
Loneliness can be a deep, vast sea to those who have no one waiting for them on shore. Open your heart to someone you know is floating in a sea of despair, their head barely above the waterline. Stop in for a visit, jot them an email, or give them a call. The fact that someone cares might be enough to give them the fortitude they need to start paddling. ~ by Sandra Kring
My parents have always kept a subscription to the Chicago Tribune. So from the age of about 11 on, I was an avid daily reader of Dear Abby and Ann Landers. Over the years, I was always a bit amazed that the same complaints appeared over and over again; intrusive questions about fertility, noisy chewers, comments about children with disabilities. Ann and Abby had already answered these questions many times before, people! Weren’t you paying attention? Even my friends at school read Ann and Abby most days. In an argument, Ann or Abby’s opinion was a trump card – they had that kind of authority. Continue reading “Be a candle”
I’m not one to put much stock in sterotypes, but I was raised Catholic. And I have Catholic guilt. Bad. But I’ve worked really hard to get rid of it and I’ve learned some things along the way. Like that the problem with Catholic guilt is that it relies on a very inaccurate view of how the world works. It’s mostly sustained by the holy trio of bad ideas:
The Upside Down World 