STONE CATCHERS
Those persons who can see inside, who can look beyond, exteriors into covert interiors, are truly, a blessed people. These are sainted people.
Not only see more, but hear more, feel more, smell more, taste more; all sainted people intuit more, risk more, do more, take on more, than just plain folks, even if most of these people are no more than "just plain folks" themselves from outer appearance.
These thoughts are inspired by my final readings in the stirring book, JUST MERCY: A STORY OF JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION by Bryan Stevenson, Esq. (2015), near its epilogue. Outside on the stony, worn steps of the crowded, noisy courthouse in New Orleans , Louisiana, after another stressful, rewarding, day in which his EJI (Equal Justice Institute) had earlier won, U. S. Supreme Court-backed, releases of hundreds of men who had been long imprisoned; these two in New Orleans to life in prison without parole in non-homicide cases, for over 50 years.
He met an old woman sitting on the stony steps, a "stone catcher;" i.e., one who catches stones thrown at others, dutifully. She and Bryan sat together, talked, while rubbing their hands. Simply put, stone catchers' hands hurt at times too; are rough, need others' massage, sometimes .
Bryan Stevenson is a stone catcher.
So are all who catch my meaning.
Monday, March 26, 2018
STONE CATCHERS
STONE CATCHERS
Those persons who can see inside, who can look beyond, exteriors into covert interiors, are truly, a blessed people. These are sainted people.
Not only see more, but hear more, feel more, smell more, taste more; all sainted people intuit more, risk more, do more, take on more, than just plain folks, even if most of these people are no more than "just plain folks" themselves from outer appearance.
These thoughts are inspired by my final readings in the stirring book, JUST MERCY: A STORY OF JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION by Bryan Stevenson, Esq. (2015), near its epilogue. Outside on the stony, worn steps of the crowded, noisy courthouse in New Orleans , Louisiana, after another stressful, rewarding, day in which his EJI (Equal Justice Institute) had earlier won, U. S. Supreme Court-backed, releases of hundreds of men who had been long imprisoned; these two in New Orleans to life in prison without parole in non-homicide cases, for over 50 years.
He met an old woman sitting on the stony steps, a "stone catcher;" i.e., one who catches stones thrown at others, dutifully. She and Bryan sat together, talked, while rubbing their hands. Simply put, stone catchers' hands hurt at times too; are rough, need others' massage, sometimes .
Bryan Stevenson is a stone catcher.
So are all who catch my meaning.
