For Rui Boy

There are tens of millions of people here now who do not have food on the table. Although this is our most pressing concern alongside a laundry list of others, I nonetheless want to remind the world of the painful loss of love that our sons and our daughters have suffered. Here is a song … More For All Bereaved Parents

For Jacque Today, a burial. One of life’s grievous sorrows. Death came for my mother in 1992. She left too soon, scarcely a year longer on Earth than I am now. We were, she and I, the youngest of the respective households in which we grew; so her early exit seemed abrupt and unfair. All … More A Death in the Family