“ He's my son,” she said. “But, where’s your father? He was always the one to leave the stone.” I told her that my father was ill but he asked me to do this. It seemed important to him. “Your father’s kindness means more to me than anything else. When my child died...
"So that's the way the land lies," says Uncle Rondo. There he was, piecing on the ham. "Well, Sister, I'll be glad to donate my army cot if you got any place to set it up, providing you'll leave right this minute and let me get some peace." Uncle Rondo was in France. "...
Later, I found the grave where they’d buried the hummingbird, back against the fence, next to the rhododendron. A plank of wood leaned there, a heart drawn on it with black marker, the artifact of their words, left behind, allowing me access to their experience: Get the best ofThe M...
Examples include when a doctor is gauging the physical pain of their patient or if an employer is assessing how much paid leave an employee should get for a death in the family. These subjective decisions can easily be influenced by the hot-cold empathy gap. Maybe the doctor had previously ...
How can you leave me in these evil hands? I don’t know what these people are trying to do to me, but I know you will be with me and one day I will see you and meet you. I walked to the middle of the empty room and slowly sat down cross-legged on the floor. The dog came...
The man Christ voluntarily gave Himself on the Cross. He died for all (“a ransom for many” or “the many”). But He rose from the dead in His crucified body. Death had no power to hold Him. It has no power over anyone. The human race is redeemed from the grave, from the devi...
I still remember the horror on my parents' faces. Our family soon decided to leave the country, and by the end of 1933 we had moved back to Rozwa-dow, Poland. Most of its inhabitants were Jews: artisans, tailors, carpenters, and merchants. There was a great deal of poverty, but ...
Turn back and gaze once more on the woman who for you has forsaken home and realm, and who, on this strand, prey to fierce and merciless beasts, will leave her bare bones. O Theseus, o my Theseus, if you but knew, o God, if you but knew, alas, how poor Ariadne is suffer...
exploring underground lakes and burning up in the oppressive Mexican sun. When we got to the top of the highest of the Maya temples that have been cleared of trees, our guide, of Maya descent, could point out the vast 80 km2territory that was once the enormous Maya stone city of Coba....
Spend any time on “crypto Twitter” or Reddit, and you’ll quickly run into the term “toxic Bitcoin maximalist.” This term refers to anyone who feels that Bitcoin is the only worthwhile cryptocurrency and that all others are scams—not “altcoins” but “sh*tcoins.” I didn’t understan...