GISHWHES – A Consolation of Smiles

November 22, 2016April 24, 2020

It’s In the Asking, Where Kindness Lies

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Life’s Inevitability

But I like that she was the one that snapped it that day- that's the thousand words I see when I look at it...I see the satisfied smile when she gets the pics she wanted. I loathe that picture, but I love its words. I can see her taking it as if it happened a moment ago. I'll have that for the rest of my days.

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