Faded Glory

Hanging up my grandson's jacket, which I found draped over a dining room chair, I glanced at the label.

Sewn inside and below the collar line, it said, "Faded Glory."

As I hung it up in the small armoire that serves as his closet, I thought, "As we near the end of our lives, that's what we all wear..."

LPK
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9.27.2012 (a)

Not If But When

I sometimes feel like I have the two of them within me. Big Hig and Bruce Bangley.

One of them, the believer in whatever it is that's essentially human. The other, convinced that beliefs like that will surely get you killed.

Not if but when...

LPK
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9.27.2012 (b)