21

21!

Dear Sekai,

I know you were really concerned about becoming an adult, mostly about being a contributing member of society (I never figured out where you got that) and having to move away from me (again). Well, I want you to know that through the sharing of your story, you truly have contributed a lot. And I hope you know that I was doing everything I could for you to be able to stay, and that I meant it when I said you wouldn't have had to move out when you became an adult, even if you got married and had a bunch of children and named them all after you (though I'm still not so keen on that last bit, haha, ooo boy). Wednesday, October 8, 2014: your 21st birthday. You would've been a good man, I'm sure. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SEKAI!

Forever, I love you, always. 

21 lies

Breaking news: they say he lied. The patient we've been hearing about for the past few days, for whom there's been much public outcry and on whose behalf others' names were publicly slandered, reportedly lied about whether he had been exposed to a potentially fatal virus and in acting as if he had not been exposed himself went on to expose an estimated 100 other people who may or may not have even known that they were in harm's way. 

We have to do better. We have to decide that it is not acceptable to let others pay so dearly for our own misdeeds.

Autocorrect changed the dearly above to deadly. I pray that will not be so for those directly affected by this breaking news. And I wish it had not been so for Sekai.