Excuses

We all have the tendency to edit or make corrections

in our lives from time to time. Perhaps it is a good

thing to occasionally spell-check the words it takes

to communicate. Yet more often than not, we are still

guilty of either gross negligence or stunning stupidity.

I, myself, have woven into and out of perfection my

entire life, never having quite achieved the ultimate

Eden I was seeking. Everyone makes mistakes. It is

one of those human traits to which we feel entitled.

Other creatures are either mowed down, or ground into

the pavement for their negligence or misjudging. As

youngsters, opossums never learn to hold hands or to

look both ways before crossing the road. Even dolphins,

intelligent as they are purported to be, sometimes find

themselves ensnared in the fisherman’s net. Should you

find an error or two in this hastily written opus I herein

submit to you, I would remind you of a renown passage

from the Gospel according to Luke...”Father, forgive them

for they do not know what they are doing.” Or in layman’s

terms using a phrase in a more contemporary vernacular—

Shit man, what in hell did you expect? Exc-u-u-u-use me...

I’m only human, you know!

Chris Hanch 12-30-17