Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

It's our younger son's birthday today, and we visited him and our grandson for a while.  It's great to see him so happy and with his own family.  Not everyone wants that, but he did and now he has it.  He's had a lot on his plate being trustee of our granddaughter's trust now that his sister has died, and he and his wife would be guardians for their niece if something happened to her father, so he's been busy with trust work and settling the estate.  And at a time when we are all devastated with grief.  They are going up to the family cabin in a couple of days, and we will meet them up there next week.  Hopefully, being among the pines and firs and oaks will soothe us all.  We are tree people.  We've spent a lot of our lives walking amidst them, like old friends.  Their longevity and reach to the sky remind us we are a part of a larger organism:  the earth.