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Wisdom is taught by experience
Experience is the teacher experienced, alone.

I stood by the stove, scraping the pan deglazed with splash of Barbera wine we had shared earlier.  
The drippings sizzled like two unexpected elements, mutually exclusive clashing together in a malevolent storm.
 
Why do people hate Trump, he asked. Scrolling his phone, reading political memes, blurting phone-to-text comments, replying like bird droppings .. which made me think of a poster I had seen in Jimmy John’s sub shop, “Sometimes you’re the bird and sometimes you’re the...