Changing Times

I don't appreciate fine acting and good directing until I see poor acting and weak directing. That's the same way with books—

Some authors, and it doesn't matter the genre they select, create a piece of writing that is transformative. And it all seems effortless. Yet, I know that each word carries weight and each sentence moves along at a particular pace.

It's the same with some people. My grandmother didn't spend a lot of time thinking about how to be kind, she simply was kind. Every action was imbued with that quality. I'm certain that over her lifetime she brewed tea for hundreds of people—even the Fuller Brush man sat at her table drinking a cup of tea.

We do live in a different era and offering a stranger a cup of tea seems dangerous. What a loss.