What is traveling the planet if not meeting and greeting all the life that inhabits it? Brushing shoulders with, and bidding best wishes to, some of the many billions of beings who make their home, just as you and I do, in this most precious of space?
The shop owners and street vendors who sell him sustenance; the bar owner who opened her establishment just so he could watch a Philadelphia Eagles football game on TV.
The people who put him up for a night; the rancheros, farmers, and construction workers he passes on the road. Mathematicians, birders, teachers. But the fact is that Turcich is not like a majority of the people he meets, and as a white man with one of the most powerful citizenships in the world, he never will be.
He acknowledges this privilege. What would it be like to walk around the world as a Black man? A brown woman? To try to do everything Turcich has done—go through police checkpoints, cross international borders, bribe immigration and customs officials, set up camp on the private property of strangers, sleep in parks and schoolyards and cemeteries—as a person with less privilege?
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It looked like fine marble. At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a tall, white arch that gleamed in the sunlight. When he was standing before it, he saw a magnificent gate in the arch that looked like mother of pearl, and the street that led to the gate looked like pure gold.
He was pleased that he had finally arrived at heaven, and the man and his dog walked toward the gate. As he got closer, he saw someone sitting at a beautifully carved desk off to one side. A shooting in the Ballpark area, one in surgery and one dead. I saw that and I knew. I felt it. Years before the fatal incident involving his firearm, Politica was suspended for harassing a street performer and starting a brawl that resulted in false arrests in Not just us as a family and friends.
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Found the story interesting? She got all the way to the end of the road, maybe about a city block and a half of distance, and she just sat down, unable to move. We had to go back and get the car to drive her back. The spirit was definitely there, but the body wasn't. We tried pulling a wagon, but it doesn't work well on gravel roads, and she didn't like it. It sucks seeing our pets get old," wrote one user.
Another recalled the lengths they went to make a local elderly dog feel comfortable despite growing old: "There was this old shaggy white lab in my neighborhood who I always saw sprawled out on random lawns, his owner standing on the sidewalk either kindly telling him to get up or just patiently waiting him out.
I'd pass them while walking to the grocery store, which is a 45 minute round trip for me usually, and on the way back see that the dog had only moved a few lawns over in that time.
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