Seeking To Be Understood

“Our history, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived
but if faced with courage it need not be lived again.”

— Maya Angelou

It’s been 40 years and though I haven’t thought about it in years, I can still see in my mind’s eye the flowered dress she was wearing as she walked into the restaurant. Tanned, with dark hair, it was the moment that bad novelists and B…