mood: thoughtful music: Vienna Teng – Eric’s Song Dear Grandma, When I made plans to come back to Iowa for Christmas break, I had an a list in my head of everyone I wanted to see. My best friend Brian, my sister, my parents. Everyone that I had done life with over the past twenty-three…
Category: christmas
The Time Appointed to Men
or (Christmas, part three) To say that it was difficult to see my grandfather old, toothless, and frail there on a hospital bed would be inaccurate. At some level, I realize that life is temporary, fleeting, ephemeral. Difficult implies an inability to accept, or that this turn of events was somehow unexpected, which it wasn’t….