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When fear and distrust is your go to place

i am traveling for the first time with a new friend and neighbor, another reason widow like myself.  In our own ways we are each trying to uncover the self previously hidden in a partnership.   When I am most in touch, and most honest, I find myself out of sync with either the mainstream or perhaps just in the current setting. My travel mate lives with a lot of fears.  Fears of the evil in this world, and there is certainly evil.  Fear of new and unknown settings.  Fear of people.  This evening I ask for a ride from another senior couple in our summer citizen senior complex.   I never thought for a moment that this wasn’t safe, and it was safe.   What evil could possibly lurk in the hearts and minds of a handicapped senior couple who have been living here since May 15?  I never hesitated asking for and accepting a ride with them.  My roommate would never have done that because there are evil people in this world.  How much we cut o...