Maybe with what we have been through, maybe we will value those that we love more. Tiny moments of pizza in a backyard … an evening martini with your neighbor even though you don’t like martinis. A long walk around a lilypad garden … and a bookstore on a dusty San Angelo street. Perhaps we will realize we need each other. And we will realize we need to take care of each other … the spirit as well as the body. We will look back on these days and realize how fragile human life really is.

… and how precious.

— amanda shepherd