Ten Things You Don't Want to See:
1. Five children under 12 with Red Dye Stains on their lips, hands, and clothing as they climb aboard the already crowded public transportation bus of which you are a passenger and where beside you there is an empty seat.
2. Bruises on your teacher's wife's legs.
3. Dogs 'playing' on the playground outside the Grade Seven classroom that day so long ago causing even the teacher to pause and close the curtains.
4. The cop car turning into town five minutes after you discover the opened bottle of booze under the front seat of your parent's car.
5. A bear standing between you and your Boston Terrier.
6. Smoke coming out of the green bale stack that you have just spent all morning hauling and unloading.
7. Smoke coming out of the stone pile where the twelve year old you had been smoking earlier in the day.
8. A grandfather with black licorice in his hands and your four children dressed for town within his
reach.
9. A magpie hanging upside down caught in a tree by an old fishing line too high up to be saved or even recovered until something 'gives'.
10. Someone handing your elderly relative with loose dentures a handful of Christmas peanuts to chew.
1. Five children under 12 with Red Dye Stains on their lips, hands, and clothing as they climb aboard the already crowded public transportation bus of which you are a passenger and where beside you there is an empty seat.
2. Bruises on your teacher's wife's legs.
3. Dogs 'playing' on the playground outside the Grade Seven classroom that day so long ago causing even the teacher to pause and close the curtains.
4. The cop car turning into town five minutes after you discover the opened bottle of booze under the front seat of your parent's car.
5. A bear standing between you and your Boston Terrier.
6. Smoke coming out of the green bale stack that you have just spent all morning hauling and unloading.
7. Smoke coming out of the stone pile where the twelve year old you had been smoking earlier in the day.
8. A grandfather with black licorice in his hands and your four children dressed for town within his
reach.
9. A magpie hanging upside down caught in a tree by an old fishing line too high up to be saved or even recovered until something 'gives'.
10. Someone handing your elderly relative with loose dentures a handful of Christmas peanuts to chew.
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