Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Appreciating life’s small gems keeps us going and staves off despair even in the worst of times
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Daniel T. Weaver
So your mother dies and you think that being orphaned at age 46 won’t hurt, but it does — hurts more than when your father died 20 years earlier — and now the link between you and the past is broken and you are now the past to which your children cling, the anchor at the end of the chain of time, and it frightens you because you know that you are not forged from the same iron your parents were....
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