1. Food! Holy smokes I’ve never seen so much food flow into one household before in my life. Apparantly, there are two kinds of people in the world. The kind who hang back and are afraid to “bother” the mourning family and the kind who show up with arms full of food, paper goods, flowers and lots of hugs.
2. I am the kind of person who hangs back. Until now.
3. It takes a special kind of person to dress and and prepare the dead.
4. A mother never runs out of tears.
5. Its bittersweet to be reunited with so many people we haven’t seen in a long time.
6. When someone asks if there is something they can do and there is–let them. It makes everyone feel better.
7. Children are very insightful.
8. Family is so important. Friends are too.
9. A “perfect brightness of hope” is what makes us able to smile in tragic times like this.
