The second stanza really grabs my hand. It isn't easy looking into the face of hate. I'm stunned when I encounter it and have to give myself time to know how I should have responded. Like the time a principal of a high school in Boone County said to me, "You disgust me." I wish I had had the wherewithall to ask simply, "Why is that?"
I mentioned briefly to him that I was a Democrat (it fit into the short conversation about people using school email for the wrong purposes). If I had known what I know now, I would have had that school declared a hostile environment through the courts.
The second stanza really grabs my hand. It isn't easy looking into the face of hate. I'm stunned when I encounter it and have to give myself time to know how I should have responded. Like the time a principal of a high school in Boone County said to me, "You disgust me." I wish I had had the wherewithall to ask simply, "Why is that?"
Wow. That’s awful that they said that to you.
I mentioned briefly to him that I was a Democrat (it fit into the short conversation about people using school email for the wrong purposes). If I had known what I know now, I would have had that school declared a hostile environment through the courts.