How many times have I heard someone regret that they can't turn back the hands of Time and make the pain go away or change the outcome or make it better than chance dictated it should stay? I don't know too many people who would actually like to return to the river that swept them away when they express their desire to have things back the old way before the current tripped their feet like fly fishers in hip waders stuck patiently gathering their lines and resetting their lures as much as they struggle to understand what upset their balance and made them fall backward and carried them toward some distant sea perhaps Tynemouth or Perce true some have clung to the faint hope of a reversing current which was no more than the tide of the ocean repeating on the stream just long enough to give the illusion of turning back the river and with it the hands of Time but all that salt water would eventually be expressed back to the oc...

Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!