Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Prudence and Symbolic Ambiguity

It was a Friday night in the summer. The painters were not yet finished in the school. A drunk showed up at the door and I dispatched him. Then I got a phone call. Because the man calling was sobbing, it took me a while to understand what he was talking about. Someone had died in the man’s house. Would I come for a blessing? What was the address? After several tries, I figured out where the…

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