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Sunday, January 28, 2007

DRIFTER


The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.---Martha Washington

Sometimes I long for French accordion music.

I was longing for it
last night in my truck as I was driving to work thinking about Grace. You remember Grace, the homeless Korean woman who keeps popping in and out of my life every few months . . . popping in by phone calls with her standard greeting: "James, pick me up."

No "Hello."

No "This is ..."

Just
"James, pick me up."

I want to write something . . . something meaningful about her, which isn't going to be easy because I can find no meaning, no rhyme nor reason, to her life. She just drifts. I mean REALLY drifts. Grace drifts like I have seen no other drift.

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