Words fall off my tongue, they fall off blank and flat. I stare uneasily at my lack, my limited, my meager.

My heart breaks and no phrase follows to patch-work-quilt the love, the beseeching, the prayer I want to give.

Tonight Emily asks for us to send love to a mama who must bury her young daughter. I don’t know what to say, but I can pick-up ink and apply pressure to paper. I can draw mama arms that surround. I can put line upon line to honor her broken, her giving, and her loving.

Please join me in covering her, please.