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Jason Jepson, The Hammer: Something to Ignore, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Volume 44, Issue 3, May 2018, Page 468, https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbv222
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I try to walk every day. Occasionally I clean up the trash on the side of the road. You never know what you are going to find. Today I didn’t take a bag to put the trash in, because I felt the sidewalk would be clean from the last time I picked up the trash. However, while walking along today, I found a hammer.
I picked up the hammer and held onto it for a moment thinking: There are a few school bus stops on this road. There is a high school a couple of blocks away. I kept walking with the hammer thinking that I didn’t want one of the kids to get hurt by the hammer.
Sometimes I feel like Boo Radley, the character in Too Kill a Mocking Bird, who was a recluse. I don’t like feeling this way, so I try to be friendly to my neighbors saying, hi to them and smiling.
