This has been a happy day. One joy seemed to pile on another and then another like the drip sand castles we made—my lifelong friend Suzann and I—when we were girls.

Then the thousand joys receded in deference to the best news we’ve had in my family in many long months. It was an email from my brother, with a simple comment from my sister-in-law’s oncologist:

Kathy’s cancer is not liking what we are doing.

Thanks be to God!