In Memoriam...
Written on August 31, 2004: My firstborn child, Carl, died while scuba diving in Mexico in 1993, at the age of twenty-eight. I had already experienced the death of a husband and the death of a beloved younger sister. Perhaps those losses had prepared me in some small way for this life-wracking pain… but I must confess, it never really goes away, this agony from the loss of a child. The best proof we have of the hidden gift in every struggle is the fact that we survived the last one. -Joan Chittister today's memories He would have been forty-three, my eldest son, born in the wee hours of this day, all those many years ago, to a frightened young woman, laboring alone in the maternity ward of an Army hospital. It was the way of those days- few words of comfort were offered though drugs were... my husband sent home with the words, "It'll