The next half.

Today is the start of the next half of 2025.

I started the day a little early, with a phone call to go to the hospital to help a family in the first minutes after the death of their person. Ten minutes later, I got a call that the family wasn’t going to the hospital. Our overnight chaplain would talk with them by phone.

I won’t know their story until I get to work, until I talk with him. But it’s not my story to help tell. This chapter ending, their next steps.

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