Dear Anonymous,
Damn cold out here. He began by grumbling about the weather and the winter and riding a bike. Riding a bike at zero degrees. Without proper gear. My feet pound with pain just imagining that.
But he offers this amazing smile and suddenly in that fraction of a second what could be so bad? Like a fractional moment of grace, of perfection, of beauty. And I am left speechless with that gift.
Our friend Mike, not pictured here, lost a family member yesterday by suicide. Leaving behind a wife and children. He has lost yet another. Family relations can be really complicated out here, if not everywhere, and he wrestles with the right thing to do. Foreseeing possible triggers for relapse.
Robin Lynn Herrick has arrived with bags of toys for him to deliver to the family shelter. He has expressed that's the thing that helps him stabilize. Helps him from derailing. And so, let there be toys.