Hi everybody, this short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings if you can believe that,

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week,

a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went

about daily life.

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in

the world that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday, we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card.

A thing to share with the people that you love around the country who you don't get to

see or talk to enough.

A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to on a more regular basis.

This is Kelly Corrigan Wenders for the good of the order.

This week's for the good of the order was inspired by a recent visit I had in Bozeman.

My cousins Lena and Maggie came through town with their husbands and their very small

children.

And in Lena's case, her two step sons who are adorable, hilarious, smelly, teenage boys.

And just being around a baby and a toddler reminded me of how much touching goes on when

kids are little.

And it's something that I really miss.

I think I've admitted this before, but Claire said to me not so long ago, after I held

her for what she considered to be too long, mom, it's a hug, not a hang.

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