Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We had a nice morning yesterday, taking three grandchildren and their parents to a park with a rose garden and a long tall cement slide, which the six year old adored. Then we came home and had a New Orleans lunch delivered, with fried chicken, bisquits and other delights. Then are older son, his wife and the six year old packed up and drove home, and after recuperating a couple of hours, I headed over to my daughter's to help her out with the one and four year old boys, and we ate leftovers and after the boys were bathed and asleep, we watched a dumb romantic comedy which we thoroughly enjoyed. It had been a hard day for my daughter, as the four year old's best friend from preschool - his mother was in a bicycle accident and almost died. She was under the car, and not breathing when the paramedics arrived, got her out and rushed her to the hospital. She is now awake and expected to survive, but her pelvis is broken and she's pretty damaged. This afternoon my daughter will pick up her son's friend for a playdate. The couple also have twin older sons. So there was a flurry of meals to sign up for and just the shock of a sunny day turned nightmare. The mom was biking to meet her husband and sons for lunch, and she didn't show up. How the ordinary is mixed with the unthinkable. It is more often than we liked to believe.