When Someone Stabs You It's Not Your

After Spending Most Of Her Life Scanning The Horizon For Slights And Threats, Genuine And Imagined, She Knew The Real Threat To Her Happiness Came Not From The Dot In The Distance, But From Looking For It. Expecting It. Waiting For It. And In Some Cases, Creating It. Her Father Had Jokingly Accused Her Of Living In The Wreckage Of Her Future. Until One Day She'd Looked Deep Into His Eyes And Saw He Wasn't Joking. He Was Warning Her.

Peter Swept Aside Yogi Tea And Harmony Herbal Blend, Though He Hesitated A Second Over The Chamomile. .... But No. Violent Death Demanded Earl Grey.

Fear Lives In The Head. And Courage Lives In The Heart. The Job Is To Get From One To The Other.

Or - Perhaps - I Should Just Worry About My Own Behavior And Let Others Be Who They Are.

In Winter The Very Ground Seemed To Reach Up And Grab The Elderly, Yanking Them To Earth As Though Hungry For Them.