Days

There are some days that just knock you out. Days in which your neighbor delivers bad news and you call him liar to his face because you just cannot believe that what he's saying is true. Days where all you can think about is the long path ahead for friends as they ask, "Why?" Days where your kids listen to the words you're saying and tell you that they know what they mean, but you can tell that they can't quite put them together into a comprehensible sentence. Days where you are knocked back over twenty years to your own moments of begging an answer to your own "Why?"

That was today.

Today was the day that my friend Blake died.