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Darlene didn’t pretend that his job was normal. She never denied that it made her anxious. She spoke about her concerns often and yet she never asked him to choose between her and the badge. She was able to separate her fears from his needs. He knew that was a quality as rare as hen’s teeth
It wasn’t surprising, and that in and of itself was tragic.
That wasn’t the whole truth. There was ugliness, sure, but there was beauty in the world, there was grace, if you knew where to look. It was there if you were brave enough or foolish enough to seek it.
Look, I love Charon. I know just now it didn’t sound like it, but I do. It’s my home and heart. And because I love it, I’m hard on it. I’m brutally honest about it. Because I know it can be better than what it is. But it can’t get there if we keep pretending that it’s some utopia on the Chesapeake Bay. We have to look at Charon and see the whole picture. Even the ugly parts. That’s how I catch him.”
“What if me trying to hold the world together is what keeps me from falling apart?”
Sometimes that star felt like a shield over your heart, sometimes it felt like an anchor dragging you down, and other times, well, other times it felt like a cheap-ass piece of tin.
