• To my friend in your time of loss. The love of a mother can never be replaced. Her caring nature and her warm spirit will live on in you always. • As you mourn the loss of a very special mother, may you find strength in all of your wonderful memories together. She will ne...
The Amish Girl Short Story from the book: The Amish Girl is a sweet but sad story of love loss and yearning. The author left a hint of reconnection by mentioning Belize a country in central America that she may have been forced to go to where there are a number of Amish folk. ...
Robert was interested, and wanted to know what manner of girls the sisters were, what the father was like, and how long the mother had been dead. When Mrs. Pontellier folded the letter it was time for her to dress for the early dinner. “I see Leonce isn’t coming back,” she said...
In short, Klopp is the “tough but fair” father-figure. There’s a significant crossover between the two realms; in some ways, managers are surrogate parents for their players, many of whom have foregone a “normal” childhood and entered the adult world of work before reaching adulthood t...
Agnes Callamard, Amnesty’s secretary general, says the interim ruling “sends a clear message that the world will not stand by in silence as Israel pursues a ruthless military campaign to decimate the population of the Gaza Strip and unleash death, horror and suffering against Pa...
A majority of the parents in the study commented on the avoidance they had experienced: “Friends or family didn’t call me afterwards” and “People who I thought would be at the funeral or send a sympathy card didn’t show any acknowledgment of the death.” ...
We always have been; this is why a group of intelligent apes managed to colonise the whole planet. Bregman stresses that his position is not naïve, simply realistic. Co-operation, sympathy, common decency: these are not only moral imperatives, they work far better than the chaotic, ...
A father-in-law. What’s a lawyer’s favorite drink? Subpoena colada. I hope you got some ideas, or at least some laughs. Remember the Bible verse –“A merry heart does good like medicine.”– Proverbs 17:22. . If you can’t find where to comment, click the title of this post...
Ōgai knew General Nogi well and must have felt deep sympathy for his manner of death. He went on to write several more pieces on samurai who follow their lords into death, most notably “The Abe Family” (Abe ichizoku, 1913), a particularly sanguinary tale. We might note here that ...
Life is short. We seem to think that we’ll live forever. We spend time and money as though we’ll always be here. We buy shiny things as though they matter and are worth the debt and stress of attachment. We put off the so-called “trip of a lifetime” for another year, because...