life goes on

Once upon a time, there was a boy and a girl who lived on opposite ends of a country. Music brought them to a grassy field, where they discovered each other after the boy told the girl, "I like your bumper sticker."

Before his words, she hula-hooped when the caravan of vehicles was at a halt. Perhaps then was when the boy first read the word "EARTH" written on the back of her small, gray sedan. The letters A-R-T stood out in red.

For the days that followed, they danced and smiled and stared into eyes until they fainted with the dawn. They painted circles--some signaling peace--on bare skin.

Now they chalk the same sign on walls. In their lives, they mediate. They turn anger into understanding. They even out kinks. They pacify. They do not stand between two forces, but instead they walk between two forces. They recognize good and they recognize evil. They look for boundaries between both.