Tag: Father
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The Precious Power of Tears
“The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don’t have both, you don’t know yourself.” Rumi kelly salasin I feel drawn to write about the power of tears–though I am an unlikely candidate. I can count the times I’ve cried in the past thirty years. And yet perhaps…
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“That’s My Daddy” from 4 to 40
by Kelly Salasin “That’s my daddy! That’s my daddy!” A four-year old girl stands with a tiny suitcase in hand as a passenger ferry pulls into dock. When she spies her father on the second-story deck, she jumps up and down, shouting, “That’s my daddy! That’s my daddy!” Surprisingly, that little girl is me (almost…
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