Author: sharonafoley

Today is the anniversary of my father’s death.  He died in 1968 on Christmas Eve when I was age 21.  He had artistic and engineering talent and used these skills in his work in the textile mills in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.  Dad designed the silk fabrics that were sent to New York and used to […]

….I am washed and washed in the river of earthly delight– and what are you going to do– what can you do about it— deep, blue night?

The above cartoon is used with permission from the website A Kidney for Cathy.

The following facts are posted on the National Kidney Foundation website in a sample letter to family and friends Here’s some basic information about kidney donation:

Morning Meditation Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language Do not search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And […]

Sometimes, like a child in the dark hiding from an imagined monster in the closet, I feel immobilized by fear of the unknown.  As the child is reassured by a parent turning on a light to show a monster-free closet, so am I able to take action once the facts of my situation are revealed.  […]