“Some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they are gone.
I guess I just miss my friend.”
—Stephen King, “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”
As we are all now painfully aware, our community lost par…
