I cried when I read this. Being a Molly Grue… we come by it honestly, through pain, and ultimately through love. You captured that tension and expressed what it is to be old, and disappointed, yet still to live in hope and belief. I give you the lilac wood of my heart in thanks

What’s yours? What songs or artists give you strength?

For me that list includes:
The Beatles (my first love)
The Cure
Depeche Mode
Kate Bush
The Sundays
Lush
Metallica
Rush
Tori Amos
Joy Division/New Order
Bauhaus/Peter Murphy
The Smiths/Morrissey (even though he is horrid as a person)
Alll the yacht rock
Enya (ha!)
Nickel Creek/Punch Bros.
John Prine

A chill wind blew through the burned-out subdivision where once lived a shining community. Decent homes, decent people- long vanished. A lone coyote, picking for scraps, cocks its head to hear a far off whisper, "But...her emails..."

If you’ll take me, yes. Instantly.

May they reap what they sow

Oh my gosh, you’re RIGHT. That’s exactly it. He should be in a dispute with Kermit right now