Happy New Year everyone. Globally speaking, this has been a pretty terrible year and a lot of people are still suffering quite a bit. We can only pray that 2021 is better and do what we can to make it so. I have hope.
Hope from Above
The wind caressed the dress shirt from its rooftop drying rack. It rose into the air, a well-dressed ghost preparing for a New Year’s Eve party. A cross breeze sent it dancing with invisible partners.
Sung-Ho sat listlessly on the curb. Suicide? Why, with no life insurance? Burn down the building? Insurance companies could tell. Start over?
How?
He felt Eun-Ha’s hands on his shoulders. “We’ll get the money somehow,” she whispered.
The shirt fluttered down. Sung-Ho caught it before it hit the ground.
“See?” his wife said. “2021 will bring hope. Even God is sending us his dry-cleaning now.”
The Green-Walled Tower 
December 30th, 2020 at 11:40 am
A lovely vignette
December 30th, 2020 at 1:58 pm
Terrific punchline, David
December 30th, 2020 at 2:31 pm
What a beautiful tale. God WILL indeed provide. Always has, always will. Happy New Year!
December 30th, 2020 at 2:55 pm
There’s always hope when you look for it with more than a little help from God!
December 31st, 2020 at 3:44 pm
Very true. Happy New Year!
December 30th, 2020 at 6:36 pm
When feeling in crisis, look for small movement. Best to you for 2021.
December 31st, 2020 at 3:44 pm
Thank you. You too!
December 31st, 2020 at 6:10 pm
You’re welcome 🙂
December 31st, 2020 at 4:28 am
Elegant description and a clever take on the prompt. I loved the last line!
December 31st, 2020 at 3:43 pm
Thanks, Penny. Glad you liked it. Have a great New Year.
December 31st, 2020 at 5:50 am
A lovely hopeful story. Happy new year 2021
December 31st, 2020 at 3:43 pm
Thanks, Liz. 🙂 To you as well.
December 31st, 2020 at 6:12 am
They have God on their side! things can only get better. Nice one.
December 31st, 2020 at 8:24 am
This one brought a smile. Hopeful and positive, refreshing.
December 31st, 2020 at 3:43 pm
Thanks, Linda! I hope you have a blessed New Year.
December 31st, 2020 at 4:18 pm
Thanks! Same to you 🙂
December 31st, 2020 at 3:21 pm
I love it! Our help comes from above. Thanks for leaving me a comment.
December 31st, 2020 at 3:36 pm
Thanks for reading. Glad you liked it. 🙂
January 1st, 2021 at 7:07 am
Dear David,
You captured it all, the hopeless desperation and optimism. Let’s hope this next year is better. As always very well written. Bravo!
Shalom and Happy New Year to you and Lovely Leah,
Rochelle
January 1st, 2021 at 2:41 pm
That was a beautiful write, David. Hope is not a thing we should give up on.
January 1st, 2021 at 11:00 pm
Great message. I never really understood the power of hope until this year. It’s such a gift during bleak times.
January 2nd, 2021 at 11:39 am
somehow we have to believe the sun shines brightly behind the clouds. 🙂
January 4th, 2021 at 4:46 pm
I like the ray of hope at the end. Good one. Hope springs eternal and with God, there’s always hope.
January 5th, 2021 at 3:41 pm
Nicely said and told
January 7th, 2021 at 10:14 am
Don’t know how I missed this. Another homer.