The Guncle

by Steven Rowley

“Bacon is pigs and pigs are our friends. Do you want to eat your friends?” Without hesitation. “If they taste like bacon.”

“‘It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.’ Dorothy Parker.”

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.”

“People who love each other fight. The opposite of love isn’t anger. It’s indifference. When people stop fighting, that’s when you should be worried.”

“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.”

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