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Category: Letters to an Adopted Child

Letters to an Adopted Child

Sunscreen

Sunscreen is painless, quick to apply, and effective, and yet it almost always becomes the enemy of the summer’s day. Continue reading Sunscreen

Davis Wetherell1 Aug 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Mask

Like the Coronavirus itself, the mask has spread. Once particular, it turned ubiquitous, though not without friction. Continue reading Mask

Davis Wetherell18 Jul 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Coaster

Once a year, the local community enveloping my college campus held a town-wide garage sale day. Continue reading Coaster

Davis Wetherell4 Jul 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Bookshelf

This one room stores more wisdom than my mind can retain. And most of what I am able to read in my short life, I will forget. Continue reading Bookshelf

Davis Wetherell20 Jun 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Glasses

Lenses look like flattened ice cubes, melted enough to be translucent. Cold and dull, they seem impersonal. But the task they perform makes them a vital part of our humanity. Continue reading Glasses

Davis Wetherell6 Jun 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Mice

One Sunday, your mom was in her workshop building a coffee table when I heard her scream, “Mouse! Mouse! Davis, there’s a mouse!” Continue reading Mice

Davis Wetherell30 May 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Wrigley Field

At one point, I found myself at an intersection so full of people that I was pushed up against a corner storefront, unable to move. For a brief moment, I thought I might not escape the crowd, ever. Continue reading Wrigley Field

Davis Wetherell23 May 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Baseball

A baseball mimics the layers of the world, having cowhide and cotton as crust, yarn as mantle, rubber as outer core, and compressed cork as core. Continue reading Baseball

Davis Wetherell16 May 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Rain

Controlling rain would be a great thing for humanity. You don’t have to look far in our culture to see the damage rain has done to us in the past, and the ways we are trying to cope with it now. Continue reading Rain

Davis Wetherell9 May 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Genesis

The stories tend to feel bare and incomplete, and this is intentional. The author has left gaps in the narrative for our own hearts to fall into. Genesis lets us participate in the story. Continue reading Genesis

Davis Wetherell2 May 202027 Nov 2020

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