She says it at the table where we are dining.  We have been given an overnight, away from chores, away from breakdowns and dead cows, away from the tyrany of the urgent. I ask if everyone thinks Elijah would have liked this?  Cedric says, "Yeah". And that Ella says, yeah;  but we wouldn't be here if he was. It stops me short.  And I think of all the things we have done.  All the ways in which people have been holding us up.  If Elijah were here we wouldn't be so desperately exhausted, overwhelmed and on the edge.  Our hearts wouldn't feel like ... View Post