What’s the rush?

And just like that I became one of the slow-walking, carefully-shopping folk at Walmart, the same ones I’d zoom past and think, “Pick it up, old timer. Death is right behind us.” I guess surgery and hard times will do that to you. Doesn’t matter what kind. No need for details.

Now I look at those folk as being a part of a massive work crew, pulling back on the ropes of time, trying to slow down the…