With Age Comes Regret, But Pebbles Still Create Amazing Ripples
No Kings march in Waterville, 600-800 participated. John Clark musing about this month’s dual topic options, Heartbreak or world events. Like Mary Strand so eloquently pointed out, they’re like Siamese twins these days, inextricably entwined. In quiet moments, I tend to look back on my passage through life with ever more insight and clarity. Buried in my mental file of ‘stories I better write soon’, is one about a man dying of cancer who’s under hospice care. His illness ravages him a bit more each day, but refuses to let him go. His hospice person, a wise non-Caucasian, tells him he has too many unresolved regrets to be set free. When the ailing man asks how he can deal with them, his caretaker offers him an organic psychedelic that allows him to go as far back in the past as he can and rectify as many slights, hurts, and instances of meanness as possible. The man, initially reluctant, agrees, only to find so much in his past that needs fixing, that he must make th...
