{"id":2961,"date":"2017-12-08T19:38:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T02:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2017-12-08T19:39:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T02:39:18","slug":"two-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/12\/08\/two-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom and Ruth had been married forty years. The heart monitor was beeping with every breath Ruth took.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to miss you,\u201d Tom said. His weathered hands were one with Ruth\u2019s. Two streams of tears ran from his eyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve lead a good life. I\u2019ll be okay,\u201d Ruth said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how I\u2019ll…\u201d Tom asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be together soon enough, love. The children need you. You have to be strong for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

She closed her eyes quietly. A bird took off and flew high into the clouds towards the sun. Its counterpart sat pensively, wondering where to go.<\/strong>
\n
\nFrom Guest Contributor Steve Colori<\/a><\/p>\n

Steve was born in 1986 and during undergrad he developed schizoaffective disorder. Over the years he has worked hard to overcome the disorder and help others while doing so. Steve has published thirteen essays with Oxford Medical Journals, he has written freelance for Mclean Hospital since 2011, he writes a column with The Good Men\u2019s Project titled \u201cSteve Colori Talks Mental Health,\u201d and he has a memoir available on Amazon, “Experiencing and Overcoming Schizoaffective Disorder.” A quote he has come to live by is \u201cTo Improve is to Change; To be Perfect is to Change Often.\u201d (Winston Churchill)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom and Ruth had been married forty years. The heart monitor was beeping with every breath Ruth took. \u201cI\u2019m going to miss you,\u201d Tom said. His weathered hands were one with Ruth\u2019s. Two streams of tears ran from his eyes. \u201cI\u2019ve lead a good life. I\u2019ll be okay,\u201d Ruth said. \u201cI don\u2019t know how I\u2019ll…\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2260,2520,113,1060,6625,41,2927,6623,2191,600,1642,5828,6624,1531,1323],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bird","tag-breath","tag-children","tag-clouds","tag-counterpart","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hands","tag-heart-monitor","tag-life","tag-love","tag-married","tag-steve-colori","tag-streams","tag-sun","tag-tears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}