The Wonder and Heartbreak of Life Under Our Sky (opens in new tab)

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien It was my son’s fifteenth birthday. His basketball game got canceled, so my wife, my son, and I climbed back into the car a bit disappointed and started the drive home. We were just heading back to the house as we always did after games. My wife was mid-sentence when something caug...