Scraps of paper
by CarolineReading Cary Tennis’s column Since You Asked makes me happy, always. He is fighting cancer right now and this lends additional pathos to his writing, but he is always provocative and thoughtful. A few years ago a reader asked for any advice Cary might have on dealing with a death in the close family and Cary began:
You know, considering all that our poets have said about death, I do not feel all that eloquent either. What small observations I might add are like little scraps of paper on a heap of gold.
I have long believed in little scraps of paper!
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