MIRACLES

You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24/7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...

You may need to start small. No prob. The five dollars you found. The ad you answered. The supermarket line that suddenly shifts to a new cashier. You go. Pretty soon you’re knocking those babies off. MVP. Out of the park.

Move on to the big stuff. Take the phone calls you ascribe to chance and start aiming big. The universe doesn’t care, Honest Injun. It all comes from the same place, You, so turn your SuperBeam on 360. Go team. I know you can do it because I can too.

Your miracle starts Here, reading these words, and ripples out like a stone thrown in the lake. Your computer, the place you live, the fact you live at all. One big fucking Mosh Pit, folks. Jump in. The hands are all waiting to carry you above the crowd in the swift current always flowing, taking you from the stage to the exit door where we all will wait.

I’ve the honor of sharing my life with a beautiful creature named Polly. I’ve lived for twenty years with HIV and AIDS, a disease that has killed millions. I have actually experienced my family as other humans like me. I have been able to touch thousands of people here on SRO. I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other’s lives.

It’s the best I could hope for. It’s the essence of being alive. It’s god-like, it’s human. It’s a miracle.

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