18. Please accept my heartfelt condolences on the death of your sister. It’s such a tragedy when someone dies so young. Pay attention to the details when you are expressing sympathy to someone you don’t know well. Knowing that the person lost a sister as opposed to a mother makes the...
Losing a spouse can be a difficult time in someone’s life. Depending upon how long they had been together and the depth of their relationship, bond, and love; the grieving process can become quite long and enduring. Sharing some words of sympathy will help to remind the friend or family ...
As a child my sympathy was clearly on the side of Peter Rabbit. What, I wondered, made Farmer McGregor chase Peter out of his garden with his rake? How could a little rabbit be a threat? At the time I lived in a neighborhood with neither gardens nor rabbits. Now I live with a love...
Death’s final pronouncement at the end of the book that he is ‘…haunted by humans’ shows his sympathy for the humans whose souls he carries. Death cannot reconcile the astonishing cruelty and compassion of which humans are simultaneously capable of. ...
time their memory will be hazy and the narrative simplified and all of humanity will be remembered as one monolithic contradictory creator with arbitrary rules and morals. All that will remain of us is love, no sorry, that was someone else. All that will remain of us is the data we saved...
I was starting to wonder if I was getting sympathy Chicken fever, but today I’ve been itchy all over and a rash has started to show up in various places. Yesterday Chris started to feel a bit tired, and a bit achy. Yesterday evening a rash started showing up on his back, but we ...
days without spending any real time alone with God in prayer, I get the static of being two clicks off. When trials and difficulties come along that I don’t understand, and I rebel or hide in my corner like a small child, I get so far out of tune that I lose Gods voice ...
Over the past month, I have worked on building two new scenes based on the gaps and timing errors that I discovered when I placed my chapters into my Excel spreadsheet. These new scenes have required me to go back and research the years I am writing about, including popular music of the...
Over the past month, I have worked on building two new scenes based on the gaps and timing errors that I discovered when I placed my chapters into my Excel spreadsheet. These new scenes have required me to go back and research the years I am writing about, including popular music of the...
page of my journal. When the journal is full, I look at my beribboned and bejeweled treasury. Just in case there is someone else like me, I try to use be-words in my writing, to bestow on them the joy I’ve betaken. On an especially good day, I might make up a new be- wor...