Wisdom   I didn’t really get him when he taught us the folly of thinking that life pits one against another — but no, that’s not   it at all — wisdom and everything good is passed along — life’s bucket brigade. I got it later, in the men’s room, where we would   line up at the trough. I was still at my wit’s end before I suddenly understood him when he said, “We are but conduits.”     © Michael Fleming Brattleboro, Vermont December 2019