Description: Gratitudes is a blog begun during the 2020 pandemic to highlight the daily compassion, kindnesses, mutuality, and bright hope that shines in dark times. Together apart.
Gratitudes is a blog begun during the 2020 pandemic to highlight the daily compassion, kindnesses, mutuality, and bright hope that shines in dark times. Together apart.
By William Cass Leave a Comment
All I was doing was taking a few moments to converse, to listen a bit: just simple, friendly exchanges like any other on my mail carrier’s route. Edna was an older woman, perhaps eighty, who always met me on her front walk midway between her open doorway and the sidewalk; I supposed she was waiting each morning for my arrival. I knew her husband’s passing had been recent because I hadn’t seen him for several months, and his Social Security and Veteran’s Affairs checks began coming in her name instead. Wh