The Guncle

by Steven Rowley

Guncle Rule number one: Brunch is splendid.”

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.’ Oscar Wilde.”

Guncle Rule number eight: Live your life to the fullest every single day, because every day is a gift. That’s why people die. To teach us the importance of living.”

Books should be an experience,

“Turns out it’s painful to be loved. Intolerable even, at times.”

“Grief orbits the heart. Some days the circle is greater. Those are the good days. You have room to move and dance and breathe. Some days the circle is tighter. Those are the hard ones.”

To live is the rarest of things. Most people merely exist.”

“Pain doesn’t lift until you feel it.”