Dean's Not Fine

My beautiful friend and GISH teammate, Caitlin , is back at it today with her Chosen Love Challenge ! #ChosenLoveChallenge Day 4: pic.twitter.com/8z46JdCUL1 — Caitlin 💞 (@_chosenlove_) January 5, 2019 Wow! This one is the best yet! And because I have so many favorite songs... I decided to throw a tricky puzzle/theme in there. (The answer is in the comments below!) So, please enjoy my totally plagiarized poem, "Time Enough to Cry." A pretty lady looked at me and said her diamond watch had stopped cold dead. Your tomorrow's not the same as today, I said. Where do you run when it's too much to bear? Who do you turn to when nobody's there? Day is night in New York City. Smoke, like water, runs inside. Steel idle trees to pity Every living thing that's died. Life is like the coldest winter. People freeze the tears I cry. People runnin' everywhere. Being pushed and shoved, trying to beat the clock. Just run around, run around ...

My beautiful friend and GISH teammate, Caitlin , surprised us at the start of the new year with her Chosen Love Challenges... I've already drawn a great childhood memory -- with crayons! -- and today she asked us to take just five minutes to write a story. #ChosenLoveChallenge Day 3: pic.twitter.com/RlcL4NrE5S — Caitlin 💞 (@_chosenlove_) January 3, 2019 Impossible yet wonderful! That sounded right up my alley! I thought about it for a few hours this morning... and I sat down at 3:20 p.m. to write my story. As promised, all done by 3:25 p.m. Here it is, reproduced, with just a little bit of editing (let's say that took another 5 minutes!). When he was born, they were both here. I guess that was a gift in itself. By the time he was 8 months old, they were both gone. I tried hard to make sure he grew up with every bit of love they'd given me. And more... the sum of all I'd learned as a grown-up. And all they'd learned as grandparents. I tried. An...