(c) 2016 Chuck Teixeira
This story was supposed to encourage – if not you — an older friend of yours. Maybe much older. Too old to be in a love story. But not too old for a story about coming to terms with the absence of love. Legal terms as in a binding accord or agreement. Your friend, let’s call him Stosh, recently retired from the Agricultural Welfare Commission, is one party to such an agreement; the universe – that universe! — is the other party. Under the agreement, Stosh accepts dying without ever fulfilling his prayer for love. In exchange, the universe enables Stosh to persist in that prayer until the final moment without regret or shame. The agreement provides explicitly that one date can be both an acceptable prayer and a sufficient answer. The agreement also provides that Stosh must stop doubting and complaining — since these destroy the…
View original post 933 more words
wildeoats 