The End.....
I walk out of the Salt Lake City Library, after finishing the last post. I decide to not go back on the road, to take a stand. I am walking away from the library and get a call. It's the owner of the company and he tells me the sales are too low and we wont be going out for awhile. It's what I want...but I am frustrated... because I want to take a stand....I hang up and laugh at the absurdity of it all.
I cross the street and walk next to a woman in an electric wheel chair. She has a black lab trotting next to her. I say to her, " That is a sweet dog." I notice the electric power display in the arm of her chair, the red light moving back and forth. "This is Blanche, she's a good dog, they gave her to me after I was brutally raped and tortured." The woman starts crying. I touch her shoulder and squeeze. We walk a block, say nothing. We get to the corner and I say, " You know there are angels among us and they sometimes look like black labs....she cry/laughs... tells me in a whisper, "Blanche has wings." She thanks me for being kind. I walk away grateful that I could give a little comfort. I realized that one does not have to go farther than the corner to experience living...to be alive.
In the end I have learned an important lesson from this project - that we are all travelers, whether we fly 3000 miles for a job or a block from the library. We are all traveling somewhere.
God speed that you make it where you are going.
Christopher Leibow
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