”An Autumn’s Journey - Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life’s Seasons” - Part Four

Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough · Aug 11, 2025 · 26m

The front porch was the door to the world “out there.” As a kid, it was the stepping off point to the world that never forced us to step off. It was the place through which the outside world would come into mine; monitored and managed in a way that didn’t make the world safe, but that pared and neutered it sufficiently to make it safe whenever it was granted entrance. As a kid, other than it being huge, I didn’t know everything that was out beyond the oak planks and cement steps. What I knew however was that the front porch would unflinchingly manage its entrance into my life. It was a rarely…