After you read the Good Book, everything

After you read the Good Book, everything else is bad. And I have graduated from the School of Hard Knocks, but there ain’t nothing do prepare you better for life than the Good Book

There's one chapter that tells you how to forgive folks who done you wrong. And, boy, I've been stepped on many a times. The Good Book taught me to turn th'other cheek. Like when I

do

I

.......................was at a loss for words. I

know that's not normal for me. I usually talk a mile a minute. But then I remembered my mother's bathing cap from the 1960's. It was covered with these weird rubber flowers that

carried a faint aroma of vinyl and oranges. I hadn't seen it person for decades, but I remembered that the iconic bathing cap appeared somewhere in a family photo album.

I found the photo of Grandma wearing the cap, but it was gone, as if someone had badly photoshopped it off her head. But photoshop hadn't been invented yet! The cap suddenly flew

sill of the open window that led to the fire escape. The cap paused. It didn't have eyes but I know it looked at me. It made up its mind about something and caught the breeze out.