One Summer in Savannah

by Terah Shelton Harris

Trauma doesn’t punch a clock, but you can set your watch by it. It works overtime most of the time. But it can be smothered like a whisper in a storm.

“Science has taught me to believe in things that can be derived rationally through logic. I have no interest in a God that has to be believed in.”

“Energy is needed to create movement. The magnetic field that surrounds magnets contains stored energy. Whenever there’s stored energy in an object, like a magnet, it will be pushed in that direction. Bringing magnets closer together decreases

the stored energy in the magnetic field and they are forced together,” he says, pushing the magnets together. “That’s attraction.”

“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.”

Forgiveness, I’ve learned, is like a door. You can open yourself up to it or close yourself off from it at any time. We can’t rewrite history or change the outcome. Life is a series of choices. And we live in and with those choices we make.