Worst Case Scenario

by T.J. Newman

This is what community is. It’s not a place, it’s not a people—it’s the acts of love done in a place by those people.

If he truly had understood what that meant—that time runs out—he would have done it all so differently.

We’re here, then we’re not. And before that and after that, the mountains stay put and the waves keep crashing and the storms come and go and none of any of that is aware that for a brief, fleeting moment, we were here too. We were a part of it too.