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Around the Round Table

Michael Maupin
2 min readMay 12, 2018

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King

Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (public domain).

This month is troubling because it’s the 10th anniversary of my mother’s death. She died on May 24, 2008, so it’s been a while. But the memory of that day still lingers.

And tomorrow is Mother’s Day.

It’s a hard day for us motherless children.

But I’m going to get out and celebrate, treat myself to brunch somewhere and maybe take in a religious ceremony. We’ll see. Just to remember Mom.

This past week there was a theme: Don’t be an isolated social media Doopty-doo. Here’s what that looks like:

Do be a person who gets together with other humans IRL. On Wednesday, hung out with some wonderful former coworkers and we caught up with things. The general conversation centered around how lonely it gets when people aren’t making time for…

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Michael Maupin
Michael Maupin

Written by Michael Maupin

Writer, editor, and media maker. Blogs at Completely in the Dark (www.completelydark.com) and lives in Minneapolis, MN. Currently on Substack at StoryShed.

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