"Sister, it's not like we were singing Don Gato or anything...go eat some Hot Tamales." - My sister, Facebook, May 9, 2011 This means nothing to you yet, but it will in a minute. When I was a kid, my mother would sing the song Don Gato. If you're not familiar with this happy little ditty, it's about a cat who sits on a roof to read a love letter, becomes so overwhelmed with joy that he jumps around and eventually falls off the roof. Then he breaks all the bones in his body, which are ... Continue Reading
Soul Food
Food For Your Soul Friday: Implicit Joy
I am already dead. In some future place, some unknown time, in some way no man can accurately predict, I am dead. So are you. How does it feel? Irrespective of the tragedy we endure, or see on the computer screen, or watch our neighbors go through, these tumultuous times have given us a gift. And it's one that might not be easily seen, or, better yet perceived. And that is the hard knowledge that at some moment, of some day, of one week, of one month, in some year, we will be ... Continue Reading