It’s my “anniversary” today.
Two years since I saw headlights coming at me from the wrong direction.
Two years since strangers helped pull me from the wreckage of my car.
Two years since my dear friends rescued me from the side of the road and cared for me at both hospitals and homes for weeks on end.
Two years since I was miraculously delivered from death.
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(Photo: Gongju Gongsanseong Fortress)
“Ms. O’Leary, we lose all!”
It’s one of my favorite memories of my students in Malaysia. My friend Shelby was leading a group of her students back to class after one of their basketball games and one of them saw me coming down the hallway across the courtyard. He had the biggest, happiest grin on his face as he announced his team’s failure.
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(Photo: The heavy snow outside my school in Daejeon – absolutely vanished the next day)
For everything, there is a season.
Familiar words and yet, no one warns you of the day that you suddenly just can’t do things as naturally any more.
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