Open Hands · Week 3 · Wednesday · INSECURITY The report card came home on a Tuesday and she felt it in her stomach before she had finished the first line. Not worry for him. She knows what worry for…
A Document About Her
Six Minutes of Evidence
Open Hands · Week 3 · Tuesday · INSECURITY He is nine weeks into his first job managing people, and he has not given a short answer in a meeting since he started. Somebody asks where a number came from….
The One She Left Up
Open Hands · Week 3 · Monday · INSECURITY She gives a post about ninety minutes. That is the window she has worked out, without ever writing it down: if it has not moved by then, it is not going…
A Greeting He Had Not Earned
Open Hands · Week 3 · Sunday · INSECURITY You need to know one thing about a winepress to feel this passage properly. A winepress is a pit, cut down into rock, with walls. You press grapes in it. You…
The Season I Would Rather Be Past
Open Hands · Week 2 · Saturday · ANXIETY This past Sunday, I told you I am a planner by temperament, and that Ecclesiastes 3 has always been a problem for me. I have been in seasons where the thing…
The Phone on the Windowsill
Open Hands · Week 2 · Friday · ANXIETY She has not taken a day off in about a year. Not a dramatic year. No crisis, no eighty-hour weeks, nothing anyone would write a story about. Just a year in…
Two Seasons, One House
Open Hands · Week 2 · Thursday · ANXIETY The baby was due in six weeks. The contractor had a slot in four. It made sense on paper, and paper is where most of these decisions get made. Do the…
Behind on a Schedule Nobody Gave Him
Open Hands · Week 2 · Wednesday · ANXIETY Four invitations came this year. He went to all four, and he was genuinely glad at all four, and he did math in the car on the way home from all…
What It Cost
Open Hands · Week 2 · Tuesday · ANXIETY He is thirteen and he is awake again. Nothing in the room frightens him. He is not thinking about anything that has happened. He is running tomorrow — the walk in,…
Same Company, New Number
Open Hands · Week 2 · Monday · ANXIETY They gave her a new badge on her first day back. Same company, same building, new number, because the old one had been closed out somewhere in the months she was…