Tag: Human
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The Unfriending
I’ve been unfriended. Not in an offhand virtual click of a button way, the result of a web-based housecleaning that goes unnoticed for weeks, but in a bloody cut it out with a knife never speak to me again unfriending. Oh, I brought it on, I fully admit that, and I deserved his anger at the moment of…
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The Funeral
“…I know mine own, mine own know me. Ye, not the world, my face shall see; My peace I leave with you, amen.” For sixty years they cared for each other, these two children of the second World War. He, Latvian. She, Yugoslavian. He told stories of a boyhood of Russian occupation, of searching for…
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Mercy and Gratitude
As human beings, we are charged with making sure the least among us are fed, clothed, and well. How much better to dwell in the light of love and compassion, than to fester in anger, blame, and judgment on the other side of the hardline.
Truth and Malbec 