My Father Called Me A Parasite In Court Until My Lawyer Placed A Sealed Envelope On The Bench

I gave her. When I called from bad lines and went quiet before answering simple questions, she began talking to me the way you talk to someone on a ledge without ever saying the word ledge.

What she never did was demand that I make myself legible for her comfort.

The irrigation failure of 2018 was the clearest example of the other kind of silence. A continue reading …