Can't waiting be more than just "whiling away the hours?"
Spending time at West Clinic today as I waited for a friend's radiation treatment to "finish up," I picked up a book, to "finish up" my morning read. Roger Rosenblatt's, making toast, "a painfully beautiful memoir....how people die out of order." (E.L. Doctorow)
It became more than "passing time" as I came across a few jewels.
When the author's grandaughter responded to her "Boppo's" comment that children have no power...
"That's not true, Boppo," she said. "We have the power of thought and kindness." (p. 159)
Rosenblatt's summation of a book review he had written (Deaf Sentence) concerning Desmond Bates visit to Auschwitz, " '...I see how one was unable to value the passing time.' "
"As far as I can tell, this is how to live---to value the passing time." (p. 157)
A needed reminder ---when in a season of waiting, value the passing time.
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