Neighbors
Neighbors know a lot about you even if you don’t know them very well. I realized that by living next to some people recently. We were close enough to jump to their window if we wanted (or so it seemed). And since we were staying in the upstairs room and it is warm here, we often had our windows open. Some mornings we would hear their teen and preteen kids getting ready for school. Not the good mornings. On the good mornings we heard nothing. On the mornings when it was harder to get the kids moving we heard it. We would hear the preteen girl having a breakdown over things. Her voice would carry through our window. I would think, “Oh boy, she is having a hard morning.” And then you would hear a parent responding back in a raised voice. Never anything bad, but I also don’t think I ever heard anyone yell, “I love you!” It’s just not something you yell in your house much I guess. We would hear when the kids ha...