DISQUS

Thanks, Kenley, for sharing with us this account of how such an overwhelming, unexpected loss was met with such grace and compassion by your friends. Tell them for me that their example, related by you, has moved me to effectualize a decision to become a donor. My wife and I had discussed this very subject just this week, and I had already concluded from our conversation that this was something I would do. Thanks to you, I now have the informational link to do so, without waiting for my next driver's license renewal. After talking to my wife tonight, I'll follow through by registering. Who was it that said that "...experience isn't what happens to us, but how we choose to regard what has happened to us"?

I, too, am reluctant to call myself a Christian, remembering that "By their fruits shall ye know them."

Thanks for the thoughtful post.

Thanks for this piece; it brought back memories of my mother, her passing, and evoked my love for her. Time may be our alembic, transmuting grief to compassion and wisdom...with time.