Tyrades! Must We Live with One Foot in the Grave?

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree

“Shower the people you love with love/ Show them the way that you feel.” – James Taylor

With all due respect to the five-time Grammy Award winner, I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain and I’ve seen sunny days when I wished people would put their advice where the sun DON’T shine.

I think most homo sapiens do a serviceable job of unbottling our emotions when a special person is terminally ill or going into a battle zone; but some well-intentioned buttinsky is always trying to guilt us into opening up around seemingly healthy acquaintances because –you never know-- we may nev...