When there's no one else to do it, and I "do the buildings" at work, it means I leave the post office at 3:45 p.m., grab the few pieces of mail in a small drop and put them in a nearby blue bin, then walk a block and a half to the JFK federal building; I collect and sort mail there for 10-15 minutes, then head to the O'Neill federal building at ( Read more... )

When I got out of the car at the cat shelter where my friend and I volunteer, there was a dragonfly on the ground. My favorite insect. One of her wings was… it was beyond bent, folded in half near the middle of the wing. She was on her back, moving slightly. I put my hand down and she held onto my finger, so I lifted her to look, and to see how ( Read more... )

[I had actually had this idea come into my head a few days before Butler died, so that wasn't the cause, but it certainly added impetus to actually writing it. I wrote it last night at Write Here Write Now, and I figured it would resonate, but yeah, rather a lot, I gather.

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Mary's Monologue

I know you fight back tears every time you hear the ( Read more... )

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