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Dec 2013
Meet Chuck: a sixty-or-so year old sweetheart, a retired chemist with   puppy-dog hazel eyes, the occasional mucus glob caked in their cracks



What he wants: the usual: a sweet tater, salad with thousand isle, warmed loaf of Portuguese bread, glass of water with a slice of lemon



What he actually wants:   someone who will listen.



Footnotes: get ready for this week’s stories of old travels, re-runs of grown kids’ work endeavors, and that one time he visited Chicago for some chemistry conference…


The spice: a lesson on removing professional masks of insincerity, or over-sincerity, as fake as the hanging plants in this place. a lesson on meeting mid-way to realize our chapters are not palimpsests, but offerings to the Book of the Universe, forever in composition.
Mel Holmes
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Mel Holmes  Asheville, NC
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