And...
And is the word I use when the truth won’t fit cleanly. Family and friends. I needed both. I still do.
Unflappable
Before the sun lifted its face from the river, I was already awake, listening to the day breathe - the low cough of trucks on the road, a bird testing one clear note, my own bones answering the cold. There are mornings when the world expects panic. I give it attention instead.
Baseball
Like the river in The Oxbow , the game bends without hurry - storm behind it, sunlight ahead, nothing to be won, only held.
Black
The day she left, God stepped back and let it happen. Distance obeyed Him. The world did not hesitate.
Or...
OR: conjunction used to indicate an alternative, the equivalent or substitutive character of two words, or approximation. It also denotes a logical operator (disjunction) - Merriam-Webster The word appeared between two commas - small as a hairline crack in a cup
Schadenfreude
To feel envy is human, to savor schadenfreude is diabolic. - Arthur Schopenhauer The ladder caught my eye first, leaning careless on an apple limb old enough to have its own opinions.
