You might think of a resting place as a couch or bed or chair, a broad expanse of lawn or a bench with a view. But there are times for resting even in times and places that might feel precarious.
Where have you found a place of rest in a tenuous time?
Happy Mother’s Day—not only to all the mothers, but also to all the people who aren’t mothers, but who protect life or nurture creation, who teach or comfort or challenge the young.
Who would you honor this Mother’s Day who is not actually a mother?
Urban legend has it that shoes hanging from a phone line are an indication of gang boundaries, or of a site for drug sales. It turns out this isn’t true. So why the shoes on telephone lines? Apparently, sometimes you just want to fling a pair of shoes.
What do you like to do for no particularly good reason?
“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”
―Terry Pratchett
What feels like it could escape from you, if you don’t hold tightly to the string?
“We clasp the hands of those who go before us,/ And the hands of those who come after us,” writes Wendell Berry. One might add that we clasp the hands of those next to us as well, forming not a line, but a web of hands across time.
Whose hand—past, present or future—are you grateful to be holding?
