“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36) He saw her at coffee hour. “How’s it going, J?” “My mom died.” “I’m so sorry…What can we do to help you?” “I will need help moving out of her apartment and packing her …
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Returning Home
They touched down in Charleston after an underwhelming approach path. The concourse was nice (this was their first time at the Charleston airport, having flown out of Greenville). They got their bags and headed to to the curb to be picked up. His mom and sister were waiting and waving enthusiastically (mom had enough enthusiasm …
Denver
(Flash back) It was January. They were just married. They were laying in their hotel room in Denver. A school classroom was visible through their window, indeed only a few feet away, yet unoccupied for the season. There was this vape pen. They had been to the weed shop, admittedly weird for him, since, while …
Elsewhere
Elsewhere, after all, could be her new ‘here’; ‘some day’ her new ‘now’. He liked to say, “If every place is any place, there’s no place left worth going.” This was not any place. It was to the people that lived here; to the ones that had never been away. She was not on a …
Turkey
He tried making smoothies. He bought bulk ingredients that didn’t really go together because he didn’t know the difference. His belly did. He tried.She was packing. They were headed to Greece together, her for the first time…The airport was abuzz. She loved airports. She was excited. So was he. She would go to the Denver …
Amazing Greece
Her genes resounded with familiarity. It was only a tarmac and only a bus ride, but the air was different here. And the people…She had met Greeks in the US,—even been in rooms full of them—but there was something different about stepping down into a country full of them—just as he said there would be.“Greeks are more …
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