3 Quotes by Eric Gansworth

It all came out like word vomit – inadequacy, embarrassment, insecurity, neediness, and an attempt at a joke. But this last fell flat.

I tell you here what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have lived. I choose not to be silent, and you can choose to open your ears, and eyes, or close them. Maybe this story is not for you. We can agree that we each see the world differently, and each have a contribution to the larger story, and believe we have things to learn from each other.

It is raining so the earth has turned mostly to mud, and I think of what the minister said when my brother died: “The rain comes and washes away his prints, so we can move on.” I wished for drought instead, so we wouldn’t lose every trace, but it rained for a week straight, and despite it being April, three feet of snow landed to make sure the job was done for good.