Blinded by the light.

"The eyes only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
-- Robertson Davies

May, 1975

I graduated from college so thrilled to have a piece of paper and be done with it. No one mentioned that a BA degree was worth less than toilet paper. 2020 covid hindsight...

I wanted to know what it was like to live in asmall town. So I did. Sabetha was 2,500 souls in a North-east Kansas county of 11,000.

One square mile surrounded by corn fields, bean fields, wheat fields, milo fields. Succinctly, it was surrounded by not much of nothing.

I was thrilled! Penniless, jobless? It was a lesson in kindness I've never forgotten. Images come to mind of ladders and splashing white oil paint, of machetes, velvet weed, and shatter-cane, of Laura in her long golden hair. Mine was bleached by the sun. And my depression of 1974 lifted, blinded by the light.





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