Customer Forced Me To Clean His Spilled Coffee Until He Was On His Knees Apologizing

this life dirty, something worth escaping. I have come to understand, slowly and in my own time, that it was never the life that needed escaping at all. It was simply that he never learned how to stand still inside a hard season and wait for the floor beneath him to hold.

Mine held. It took two years, one broken coffee mug, one furious old woman defending continue reading …