
when you hate
someone else
because they are
different than you
you are unknowingly hating on
the very Architect of Creation itself

when you hate
someone else
because they are
different than you
you are unknowingly hating on
the very Architect of Creation itself

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A monthly review, late as usual. September, a month full of surprises, life just the way it’s supposed to be. “My wife will divorce me,” a statement made by my husband at an eye exam. It’s so typical for him, but he meant it.

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How easy life would be,
could be,
should be,
If I made in my life
what they make in a day?

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My husband, the crazy, wonderful man I have been married to for decades, worked 14 hours straight, two days in a row. Which—how do I put it mildly—is completely insane.

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I didn’t know what cornbread was. It’s part of the American heritage, a kind of sweet bread made out of maize that’s hardly known in Europe, or Austria, where I am originally from.

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I am proud of my friend. When I describe her to other people, I often use my hands and show about 3″ between my pointer finger and thumb. “She is that big,” and I laugh. I don’t mean it disrespectfully, quite the opposite. My friend is petite and about 12 inches shorter than me.

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Again
Shots fired
Tears flowing
Shock and Anger
Guns in the wrong hands

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I heard the same warning when I was a child. Watching too much “Bonanza” or “Star Trek” would make my eyes fall out. A warning, given at a time when we only watched TV at night, perhaps for an hour or two.
Oh, the tales we hear when we are children.

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Looking at me, with his white ‘paint mark’ that turned out to be a scar. He was not even three months old when he was left behind in a sink in a maintenance room at an apartment complex.