She Couldn’t Give Blood

And That Opened My Wound

Photo by Hush Naidoo Jade Photography on Unsplash

My friend Laura stopped by last Saturday to pick up a painting I was giving to her. It was just an abstract acrylic, a thing I had picked up by way of the Facebook Give/Ask page in our neighborhood, and was paying forward the same way. She’d said she liked it because it reminded her of the cover art on Untamed by Glennon Doyle. I was happy enough to give her the painting. I didn’t really have a…