Things on my Desk

 

The things that make up his desk may very well make up his life.  

They are artifacts of a man named Aaron who once was a boy.

I see Spiderman hanging from a monitor shooting his spiderweb.

I see a Wild Thing that defined his childhood with “I’ll eat you up!”

It is near the paper-made basketball, a life-long love of that sport.

A photo of his two very small children who are not small anymore.

Two paintings his 9 year old daughter made during the Pandemic.

A clay pencil holder his son made at the same age 6 years previous.

The son’s senior picture taken 9 years later than that (a knowing look).

His daughter in middle school: cheerleader, lacrosse, and field hockey.

An icon from Russia: St. Panteleimon, the physician and unmercenary.

His iPad with a sticker that reads “So it goes” from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The family in their entirety to include their dog on a city sidewalk.

A coffee cup sitting in the shadows where it proclaims “God is good”.

.An island of light in a dark world where he works, loves, and prays.

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