Some problems arrive so large that we disappear inside them. On Hope’s Day, an insurance envelope, memories of architecture, a lesson from Mom, and a Bruce Springsteen song taught us something different: one little thing. Then another. Hope is not knowing how everything will turn out. Hope is learning how to remain here while we find out.
Tag Archives: Ordinary Life
The Shape in the Plaster
For much of our life, Proverb could see things Dad could not. He bridged the inner and outside worlds, helped his brothers, and somehow helped a family survive a life Dad did not yet understand. Now, at twelve, Proverb is learning something entirely different: he does not have to hold everything together.
The Protector and the Page
What happens when an eleven-year-old protector who has always understood love through duty and work discovers that his family no longer needs him to save the old world? On Justus’s Day, we begin learning that freedom requires something different.
Something More Than Messages in Bottles
We call ourselves a plural family/system. Our language may not always be the language someone uses to search for people like us. Maybe by meeting people where they’re at, it will help them meet us where we’re at. We need something more than messages in bottles.
Notes from the Treehouse 