My friend lost her father today. It wasn’t a surprise; they knew he didn’t have much longer, so when the call came from her sisters, she quickly gathered her things and prepared to head out the door.
Before she left, she told the small group of us who had gathered for dinner that she and her sisters knew he had only a few days left and had been musing that today should be the day: March 18. Their mother died on March 18, 1988, her life cut way too short by cancer.
What are the odds that he’d leave this world on the same day in March? I wonder if that was on his mind as he drifted out of this world and maybe toward her?
My Corner of the Village 