There is a woman who works
an unimaginable day in
Shenzhen. She makes sure
certain components meet
specific standards before
moving them down the line.
Her hands have touched millions of
individual inspection items,
including the two over which
a college student in
Columbia, South Carolina
lets her mother know via text that
she won’t be coming home for
the summer.
Her mother, who lives in
Bradley, Wisconsin,
is watching “This Is Us” on
an Apple TV device that also contains
components the Shenzhen woman inspected.
And she looks sadly over at
an old red lion marionette that
her late husband bought her daughter years ago,
and wonders if that daughter will ever care
about these little things anymore;
this puppet made twenty years ago,
another one of the components of life that
we choose to either push on down the line
or
reject,
To share is human:
