Juls put a pot roast in the oven, potatoes, carrots from the garden. I decided to walk to the shop down the street and get a bottle of wine for our first home cooked meal in our new house.

I grabbed my Mac off the hook by the door. As I looked through the kitchen window I saw them. An elderly couple, dressed as if for church, opening the garden gate.

“Hello. Can I help you?”

“Oh. Hello neigh...

It’s evening and the night is closing in.

The last glimpse of light disappears above the trees.

Wait!

There!

You’ll hear it!

Nothing.

For one infinitesimal moment

there is no sound.

No movement

Nothing breathes

Nothing flutters

Nothing scratches

No one sings.

The darkness surrounds.

Slips over

Around

Beneath

Above

And tucks you in for the night.

Then you realize it’s all an illusion.

It...

“You’re not ready.”

“Why? I have visibility, name recognition, and a following. People like what I have to say. They’re pleading with me to run.”

“First of all, the timing is off and you’re not ready. You may think you are but you’re not. You still have a lot to learn and I’m going to teach you. We’re going to teach you. We have the knowledge, the tools and the money to make this happen.”

I w...

He was seated at an outside table near the entrance. I took the seat opposite him. A large glass of fresh squeezed orange juice and a plate of smoked salmon before him.

“Why did you choose the Schweizer? And how did you get them to open up for us?”

“Open up? They weren’t closed. Look around everything is perfectly fine here. “

He was right. The streets of Gamla Stan are as full as they usual...

He displayed no emotion. No fear. No doubt. No anxiety in the moment.

People had gathered around the scene. A black man face down on the asphalt. His body pushed up against the car.

I stood there silently not believing what was unfolding in front of me. Those around me, cell phones out, recording, pleading with him to stop.

I couldn’t make out what was being said. Their words muffled by my c...