5. Story Time
Dearest Family and Friends, Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can’t go home again, but Marcia and I did just that a few weeks ago and spent time with a succession of our Ann Arbor friends over the course of a four day visit. Saturday morning found us at the Achilles Diner on Packard Street with Pat, the woman who started caring for our daughters when they were five and eight and kept at it all the way through their high school graduations. A tattooed waitress served us coffee and pancakes while Pat served up stories from her colorful life. “The Lord wants us to tell our stories,” Pat told us. “That’s what He wants us to do.” I will tell you one of my stories, but telling stories isn’t easy to do because my story — my truth — is personal and elusive and when I put my story into words I won’t capture it precisely or completely. I will write an approximation of my truth. And to compound errors, when you — my reader — read my words you will inevitably fill the gaps in my writing with your o...