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Black Teeth and Bubonic Plague
©2008 David Boyne
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Before it takes away
All that you've learned to love
It will defeat you
Then teach you to get back up
Because you don't
Always
Have to hold your head
Higher than your heart
—from the song Hope, by Jack Johnson
People way smarter than me say that when Life presents us with a gift, whatever it is, we must accept it.
They say whether the gift Life presents us with is finding a spray of coins on the sidewalk, just waiting for us to pick them up, or a doctor calmly giving us a diagnosis of testicular cancer, or a cop handing us a traffic ticket and not bothering to hide his smirk as he salts our wound with the command to “have a nice day,” or someone telling us that they love us and will always be there for us, we must accept the gift.
Sometimes, Life presents us with a two-part gift that we are meant to accept, and then to do something with. Like that 20-inch cast iron skillet your wife thought you’d be thrilled to receive on Christmas morning. And which the Goodwill people, a week later, truly were thrilled to receive. I think of these two-part gifts as Door Prizes, because the second part of the gift is always a choice of many doors, any one of which, when we choose it, will open to us.
Life recently presented me with the multiple Door Prize of a...
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