We must realize it’s never too late to change our ways and our thinking, and make amends.
Small American flags wave in the breeze among the rolling hills of headstones that mark the final resting place of service men and women at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on May 27, 2024. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images
Look at any old person—and some young ones as well—squint with your imagination beyond the flesh, and what you see is a mansion haunted by ghosts, some of them twisted and ugly spirits, others who are beautiful and good. These are the dead who live on in that man, and perhaps in his children and grandchildren.
Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
