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December 25 - December 28, 2021
The purpose of going fishing was not, after all, only to catch fish.
“I much prefer the meaningful title I earned to the empty one I inherited.”
Men whose mistakes could kill more people, faster; but still, just men.
It was a revelation. Trees had leaves. And letters were not elusive fur-bearing creatures hiding coyly behind each other. I wasn’t stupid, I just couldn’t see.
It was a continuing wonder to him how much less, rather than more, freedom that acquiring a responsible authority gave to one. Not at all how he’d pictured his elders, so seeming-powerful, as a child.