Tag: sons
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The Gift of Christmas “Presence”
“If we are forever yearning for ‘more,’ we are forever discounting what is offered.” Julia Cameron “You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.” – Stewart Emery Kelly Salasin I remember the morning that the Christmas “train” took my son on the journey from innate graciousness to maniacal greed to absolute dissolution. …
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First Sleepover~ “one” becomes “two”
My son isn’t sleeping under the same roof as me, and I feel a great dis-ease. My heart presses against my ribs searing my skin attempting the impossible– to reach him. And I wonder, How will I breathe when he is gone for good? (to college, to his own life, under another roof with his…
Kelly Salasin 