XVI. One of my grandmothers got caught reading the newspaper upside down. Can you blame her? What’s written there makes you think the whole planet’s topsy turvy, yet most of us only blink at poverty and war because we have to, closing our eyes is involuntary. My grandmother though, she tried to turn the entire world on its head and instead got carted right off to doctors. They operated to remove a brain tumor and fix her world view. During surgery my father surmised God would let his mother live when he saw the sky change colors. And she did live, though I suspect he only saw what happens most days, a sunset or a sunrise, which makes me wonder if it takes some sort of lesion for this species to see what’s really going on. Perhaps my grandma’s skewed vision, corrected like a straying sheep, was an opportunity for all of us to reassess what we find so right-side-up in this world.
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