Please Pass the Affirmation!
By Jody NolandThe family had gathered at their Gulf Coast beach cottage for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Everyone in the family needed the renewal and refreshing they gain from spending time there together: talking, sitting in the sun and staring at the aquamarine water. A time to just be, not to do.
One evening, as they reclined in Adirondack chairs around a crackling fire, their college-aged son posed a question to his parents:
“Would you give a one-word description of each of us?”