I'm relieved it's over and glad to move on with my life.

It's like I'm doing triage in a MASH unit.

NOTHING TO DO BUT ALWAYS BUSY

I still don’t know where the river begins, or where it ends. I don’t know where it comes from, or where it goes. I don’t know what it looked like yesterday, or what it will look like tomorrow,”
Father Dominic put forth.

“How the heck am I supposed to see all that from here?” Thomas pleaded.

Father Dominic smiled, his body shaking slightly as he silently laughed.

“Exactly, Thomas. Exactly. Now, think of your life as this river. If I were to ask you to describe it to me, how much of your life would you be able to share?”

This was a question Thomas had never thought about before. Considering his life like this felt strange, uncomfortable.

“I guess I’d share just about as much. I’d only talk about the part I can see right now. I guess I’d only tell you about what I know,” Thomas offered.

was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem,