Out Among Humans
Pat Shiplett Writes About People.
Vegetable Woman
She’s out on the sidewalk every morning building pyramids of the day’s fruits and vegetables.
She opens earlier, closes later, and operates on Sundays when the supermarkets are closed. Whatever it takes to survive.
Her shop straddles the typical Barcelona intersection with angled corners which make it feel like a small plaza.
The facing of her store is no more 20 feet across. Its inside is lit by institutional ceiling units and there is zero attempt at appetite appeal. She writes the prices by hand.
The fruits and vegetables aren’t photo-shoot perfect like we expect in the U.S. They’re picked to be eaten within a shorter time and you soon realize they’re much more delicious for it. Read more…
Jack Birdsall
Things happened recently that set the young barista on a very different path in life.
He earned his undergrad degree. He met a wonderful woman at church and they married. He started his first salaried job.
As a student he focused on writing and directing for movies and television. His university sends exceptional talents into that field but Jack has decided not to head off to Los Angeles or New York.
Filmmaking fame and fortune will have to come later. Read more…
Mrs. Trump’s Sketchbook, Bully
She knew Donald Trump was Nelson Muntz when she married him. Poor, impossibly beautiful Melania may have imagined she’d be spared. Beauty has its privileges.
Bullies in fiction like Scut Farkus, Draco Malfoy and Nelson Muntz feed on the first sign of weakness. Donald Trump is everybody’s real-life playground nightmare. Even those who climbed aboard the Trump bus — like poor Jeff Sessions — end up being dragged under it.
Placing his wife in charge of an anti-bullying campaign was cruel even by Trump standards.
