Life goes on without you, Old Man. I took the best of what you hammered into my head and used it to my fullest advantage. The bad stuff? That’s all dead and buried.
The Trifextra weekend challenge: A 33-word Apostrophe – “a figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding.”
Thin spiral notebook 
Love that voice, Tara, pitch perfect. And the all-important burying-of-the-hatchet gives it a gentle uplift, too. Wow.
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Vey good really a lot of story I can see behind your words
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Well done. Love how she buried what didn’t serve her.
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neat picture goes with it great too!
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I love how nonchalant he (she?) is about it, how the “Old Man” rolls and flows the piece along.
it is a gift when we can forgive and forget or simply use our energy elsewhere.
I am thinking of a quote from Cocktail , “bury the dead, they stink up the place” .
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interesting. A survivor exorcising the tormentor?
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Sadly perfect. I’m reading a whole lot into this. Maybe I know pretty much what you’re saying here…
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It’s good when we can bury the bad instead of lug it around with us.
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Stunning, Tara! The voice of a survivor. Let the bad stuff truly stay dead and buried too:)
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That hit a little too close to home.
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