This is how we make the world good and beautiful and kind
A poem by Langston Hughes was the 'spark' in a recent writing group session; in response, I wrote the story below. Its essence speaks loudly to me in the wake of last week's US election results: Each of us must do what we can to move this world in the right direction. I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind. excerpt from TIRED by Langston Hughes When is a table a door? Yasmina took her seat on the makeshift bleachers, as she had dozens of times before. But today felt different. Today was different. Today, she was here to watch her son defend his championship title. His first ever title, won so brilliantly last year. He had overcome the great odds of his early childhood to find his feet in this cold northern land and to make a place for himself in this challenging community of newcomers and refugees. Downtown had never been what she had imagined when she had been told that’s where her apartment was waiting for her and her...