How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives i...
On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.
We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.
And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.