a moment.
i've been alive for nearly 35 years. today is a day that stands out so crazy for me. i am blessed to be a person working a full time job. in this job i meet so many people so many ways and i either connect for work or otherwise, rarely otherwise. in my place, there was a man, a beautiful man. a lovely man. and he was married to an equally lovely woman. they lived here in the united states for so long, and they were not here illegally, they came the way one ought to, with integrity and hard work. one day they were told that it was time for them to go home and renew their paperwork. our government didn't give them any time frame, there was no, "see you when you get back" there was only a barbq where we hugged them and loved them for the last time we would see them until whenever was. the day of our good bye, the going away party was at boom island in minneapolis, i drove back and forth and back and forth and finally asked for directions to a place i have been to at leas...