Tag: age
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“Turns to So Many Shades of Grey”
One of the things I’ve started to believe is that it’s very hard to trust people who profess everything with confidence. They know their team will win, they know you’ll pull through, they know everything will work out fine. The also know that a company is great, a person is a hero, and a cause noble. The reason […]
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OPW: What the Uneducated Woman Told Me
Today’s Other People’s Words is a nice–if a little bleak–little poem by Christopher Reid. That she was glad to sit down. That her legs hurt in spite of the medicine. That times were bad. That her husband had died nearly thirty years before. That the war had changed things. That the new priest looked like […]
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Foolishness
DWQ “What a fool?!” thought the old man, seeing a young man coming up the path. He wasn’t looking out at the pond. He seemed to see little more than his feet and the dog that would sometimes wander away from him. “What a fool?!” thought the young man. This grandpa had stopped on the […]