I read this earlier today, but I'd
like to read it now just because I feel like,
what I told the class earlier is, this is actually
the heart of my response.
So, it was a piece that I wrote as I
was working on these poems.
I did a lot of research on apologies
made around the world.
So, it was really something really educational.
There have been many apologies, actually, here in the US,
right?
And as well as in Canada with the First Nations people,
and so on.
And I was really trying my best, through all of this reading,
trying to understand what makes an apology effective.
What makes it feel right.
What makes it just sit, like you can feel it
when somebody means it, right?
And I was really trying to understand that.
And so, I started thinking about apologies in my own life.
And I came to this moment that I had between my father
and that was really life altering, a life altering
moment, I think.
Well for me, definitely.