complicated
What happens, he asks, if you've made a great mistake or committed a serious unethical action, but since then your life has grown around it? The mistake has become a part of the structure of your life, and in ways that are helpful to other people. How do you make amends under those circumstances, without causing greater harm?
elegance
Glasses clinking over a table softened by white cloth and sprays of flowers.
green
It's easy to be wise, he says, when you're young and naive. He used to give people marriage advice before he got married. He laughs now, thinking back on that time, decades ago.
named
One of the benches in the park has a plaque dedicated to a homeless man. It was his bench.
nimbleness
In the light spitting rain, the white columns of the fountain jet up, and the top of each column breaks away to leap like a liquid acrobat.
spoonfuls
She comes over to cook, and throughout the afternoon I enjoy tastings.
water
A misty rain tickles my forehead. Sea gulls circle in the mist, and a duck lifts away from the river.
