Holding on to Everlasting Hope
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest: The soul, uneasy, and confin’d from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.” – Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Man” I came in from
Fruit in the Barren Places
On New Year’s Eve, I sat in my living room and folded laundry while pondering 2021. I told my husband, sitting on the other couch, that it mostly just felt full of fruitlessness and loss. My brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nieces, and nephews