Leonard and Hungry Paul

by Ronan Hession

In truth, he never left home because his family was a happy one, and maybe it’s rarer than it ought to be that a person appreciates such things.

he should take his work seriously but not personally.

Though his life had been largely quiet and uneventful, his choices had turned out to be wise ones: he had already lived longer than Alexander the Great, and had fewer enemies, too.

As you both change, you will periodically lose each other. You need to find each other again and—here’s the trick—instead of trying to rekindle what you had, you need to reinvent yourselves and your relationship. You have to keep starting new relationships with the same person.

It was a bright, sunny morning, the good weather bringing its own pressure to make something of it.

there are no promises in life. What I learned is that everyone in your life has an invisible number on their foreheads, which represents the number of times you will see them again. It might be zero or one, or it could be a thousand, but it’s a number. We don’t have unlimited time with people. I don’t mean that in a morbid way. It’s a lesson for us to appreciate people while we can. Don’t

Throughout it all, the organist, who was no slouch as a negotiator by all accounts, played background voluntaries, a mix of warm gelatinous chords and some playful cantering with the right hand, ignoring the church organ’s demonic side.