Man, what a week.
Does anyone else feel like this was kind of a turning point, a moment of national consciousness where we realize that if people keep shooting other people at random, maybe there is something wrong with our culture?
But there are good things, too, and it can be healing to turn to those now and then.
Small kindnesses are game-changers, especially in dark moments. Let's haiku about those this week. Here, I will go first:
Last week, Virginia
Old friends drove to see me talk
Such warmth in a smile.
Now it is your turn! Just use the 5/7/5 syllable pattern, and have some fun!
I was fumbling
ReplyDeleteDid not have a quarter for
Locker at the jail.
Midterms approaching
ReplyDeleteYet, study group remains calm
Maybe we aren't dumb?
Taking a bullet
ReplyDeletewhile securing his students,
ultimate kindness
WF-- that goes beyond the realm of kindness into heroism, but perhaps the two are tied together by an ethic of selflessness....
ReplyDelete“My coffee is free?”
ReplyDelete“The lady before you paid.”
“Next guy’s is on me.”
Here is a drink, sir,
ReplyDeleteThis will calm your shattered nerves,
Whiskey warms the heart.
About to miss flight
ReplyDeleteThe other people in line
Let me go first. Thanks!