How to Save Yourself

Kicking Towards the Light, an excerpt from GRIEF GLIMMERS GRACE + a prompt for sharing around the Thanksgiving table

Charlie Griswold, the summer he turned one

My youngest son, Charlie, learned to swim at the same time he was learning to walk. He loved the water. He had three older siblings who loved to swim, too, so Charlie often followed them into the deep end when other toddlers were still in the baby pool.

The summer Charlie turned one, he followed his brother Willi…