Sometimes we just need to know that someone is in our corner in it with us.

Last night was easy. She told me. It took the guesswork out of trying to figure out what she was feeling. But she didn’t tell me with her words. She didn’t “use her voice.” Her body told me. She was either cold or she was scared. Frankly, it could have been either, but since we were under a tornado watch and the wind was blowing madly through the tops of the trees and it was beginning to rain, her body was shaking like one of the leaves outside, it was easy for me to tell tha