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The Other

I met a man whose beliefs are different from mine.

It made me stumble.

I walk on firm footing of who is right and who is wrong.

And he stands in the wrong lane.

Which made me reel back and re-evaluate whether I dislike those who are wrong as much as I thought I do.

If they are wrong, and he is wrong, then why are we still talking?

I want to be with the right people.

I love to hear my rightness echoed back to me.

I listen for confirmation of how right I am.

He does not confirm my beliefs.

I suddenly feel wrong for saying mean things about them.

Because I am saying mean things about him.

Babeeee, I have gone and done it.

I have met the Other.

He is wrong.

I am right.

And we are still talking.

Who doesn’t love a bird captured by the wonderous lens of artist Marian Glaser? This heron is one of the many who dwell in my small coastal town in Mississippi.

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