Uncle Ray’s Full Parking Lot: When Love Arrives Only After Death

ask if he had eaten dinner. No one sat beside him to hold his trembling hand when the arthritis flared up. No one offered a hug to calm the silence of a house that had been too quiet for too long.

But when he died… suddenly, everyone had time.

Time to take a day off work for the funeral. Time to spend the whole night at the wake, sharing stories of a continue reading …