Under the Whispering Door

by T.J. Klune

The first time you share tea, you are a stranger. The second time you share tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share tea, you become family.

“It helps to laugh, even when you don’t feel like laughing. You can’t be sad when you’re laughing. Mostly.”

Death has a beauty to it. We don’t see it because we don’t want to. And that makes sense. Why would we want to focus on something that takes us away from everything we know? How do we even begin to understand that there’s more than what we see?”

“It’s never enough, is it? Time. We always think we have so much of it, but when it really counts, we don’t have enough at all.”