Thousand: Seven Hundred Seventy-Three

and you see them coming from a long way off. You can prepare. You can get things ready that need getting ready. Like a quip, a sarcastic aside, a gun cleaned and loaded. They come at a familiar rate. It’s predictable. You can tell yourself this and think of the days going by and not shocking you. How many surprises are there in life? You sense a pattern, you go with it. If there’s a path, you follow it, figuring whoever made that path had a reason to. After you’ve been slogging through the high grass and bog for two