A few weeks ago, I was taking a shortcut through a subdivision I’d never entered before when something interesting caught my eye. There, in an overgrown garden at the side of an overgrown house, was a gate. Not a fence and a gate. Not a barn gate, or a corral gate. Just a gate. A ...
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Heartbreaking Destiny
As I pedaled my bike down the quiet country road on my regular Sunday afternoon exercise jaunt, something I saw on the side of the road made me hit my brakes. I hadn’t noticed it in a very long time, and on this particular day, its image of stark loneliness struck me as morosely sad. ...