Dedicated to Flor “If you don’t hear from me….” The cryptic message from the other side of the world was met with shocked silence. They had recently become friends, connected through cyber space, initially by virtue of the loss of their spouses. Thus, they shared their mutual woes, shattered lives, love, and loss. But there […]
Letter: Remembering Days Long Ago
“Excuse me miss,” he said as he drew near. Quite evidently, she had not been aware of his approach. She seemed lost in thought, the fingers of one aged hand gently stroking the fingers of the other hand, absently turning her wedding ring round and round as she gazed at the old house. Startled from […]
Letter: How to Spell Love
I love to write. I spend a lot of my time preparing to write by thinking about what to write, which requires inspiration. And coffee. So, this morning at the coffee shop I’m sitting there at the window table and right out there on the sidewalk the sun is shining through the letters ‘ve’ which, […]
Letter: The Tiniest Gift Under the Christmas Tree
It was the tiniest gift under the Christmas tree. In fact, the message on the tag was bigger than the little box with the little bow to which it was attached, let alone what was inside. ‘When you wear this, always remember, I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, […]
Letter: After the Storm
“There is peculiar terror in a tempest at sea, when…the raging sea echoes to the angry sky,” reads an excerpt from “The Treasury of David” concerning Psalm 29. “There is no sight more alarming than the flash of lightning around the mast of the ship, and no sound more calculated to inspire reverent awe than […]
Letter: The Daisies Knew the Answer
He’d asked her before. In fact, over and over again. ‘Would she marry him?’ Her answer was always the same. But that didn’t dissuade him at all. He would ask again. He was, after all, nothing if not persistent. Unlike the weather that afternoon that had not yet decided what it wanted to do – […]
Letter: The Daisies in the Jar by the Window
They were the last two daisies of the beautiful bouquet that he had delivered from the local florist weeks ago to her door. Some of the tips of the petals were tinged with age. Once brightly greeting the day with their happy disposition, the sprightly and perky rays extending from the paling yellowed centers were […]
Letter: Time to Come Home
She sent me a compass so I could find my way. Attached was an hourglass, a small one at that, time running quickly and irrevocably away. Time to come home. One-hundred miles I hiked solo this just completed summer. Three times I got lost. Early mornings, awake before the sun crested the mountain, I sat […]
Letter: Reflections – How Love Works
It’s early morning at the coffee shop. A new day of autumn sunlight filters through the changing colors of the leaves, many still clinging to the spindly branches of the tree outside the window. My face is caught on the screen, reflecting my contemplative mood. An elderly woman slowly maneuvering her way along the sidewalk, […]