Just Passing Through…

I went to school in a rush today, and left behind me a wake of needs answered and needs unmet.  I walked into work with a myriad of needs to be addressed, some ordinary, some extra.  I checked things off the list, and tried to be “all there” in the midst of putting out this fire or that, checking off this list or that.  And at 11:00, it hit me.  The funeral was today. A teacher who had retired hadRead more
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Daily Prompt Challenge ~ Linger

to linger… To wait awhile longer To not move forward or backward, but to stay  for a bit because you don’t desire the moment to end. Sometimes endings are truly endings, changes that you know are coming, and in lingering a bit, we try to heed off the inevitable. I’ve had so many moments of ‘lingering’ in my lifetime.  There are moments that I’ve wanted to stretch out and make last, savoring every solitary instant. Some of the moments thatRead more