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Gaslighting on Broadway

     I remember another night when it rained liked this. It was April not October like it is now. He held his hand out to me in the doorway.  I couldn't believe what I was seeing so I didn't give my hand to him.  I didn't trust what I knew and what my eyes saw. Later, when I asked him about it, he said he didn't do it. 

Beauty for the Taking . . .

     People think they can just have something beautiful or, if it is beautiful and easily attainable, they can just take it for themselves without thinking about why it is so beautiful in the first place. The rose bush maybe was once part of someone's garden or landscaping plan but it is no longer. It has not been pruned in years and grows randomly along a sidewalk. Actually, it doesn't grow right along a sidewalk. It grows right next to an old stone fence in a backyard. It grows right out of where the bottom of the stones meet the ground. Many of the houses in this neighborhood were built at the beginning of the twentieth century. The eroded, yet still viable stone fence is behind one of the houses so the fence is old itself. At one point in the history of the home ownership, someone built a privacy fence inside the stone fence. On the back side of it, there is a stone fence. It only blooms in late August or September as it starts to get direct sunlight later in the day...