GS-At the Christmas celebration, I overheard my daughter-in-law proudl…

taking. I thought about all the times I had mistaken harmony for peace.

They are not the same thing.

Harmony often asks one person to go quiet so everyone else can keep singing.

Peace asks no such thing.

I lifted my glass toward the dark mountains.

Setting boundaries is not cruelty.

It is giving people the shape of the door they kept trying to walk through continue reading …