Digging In

by Loretta Nyhan

“Pick a few things you don’t want to let slide, and let the rest sort itself out,” he said gently after one particularly rough day. “When someone leaves this world, everything else gets jostled because of the empty space. You’re gonna land in the wrong spot for a while. Sooner or later, you’ll find where you fit again.”

Maybe freedom had nothing to do with loss. Maybe it had everything to do with joy.

“When you give something meaning, it’s worth remembering. We filter out the stuff that doesn’t touch our heart.”