How would God respond to making a mistake? Would planets collide or mountains slide into the sea? Or would the ledger of all life simply remain out kilter until a series of small events forced that ledger back into balance again? It's probably the l...
What is not in the center is always the center of something. [5]
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Welcome to north Baltimore – a small town within a larger town. This area of Baltimore is composed of a dozen small neighborhoods that fit snugly on the city/county line. They look like the border pieces in a city-sized jigsaw puzzle. Even though Baltimore is fairly large, most people have never visited this particular part of the city. That's mostly because it isn't anywhere near the center. As a result, it's only momentarily important. For some people, it's a place to drive through on the way to somewhere else. For the rest, it's just a boundary on a map. As with any puzzle, once you know where the border pieces fit, you can ignore them from that point forward. It's just the way it is. If you care about Baltimore in the least (now or ever), then you probably care about the center of the puzzle and not the pieces around the sides.
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Baltimore has been called Charm City, The Monument City, The City That Reads, The Greatest City and several other considerably less pleasant titles. But honestly, the most descriptive nickname may be The Nickel City. While other municipalities have laid claim to that title, their assertions are based on much loftier grounds than Baltimore's. In one case, there was a famous person named Nickel. A favorite son, no doubt. In another, there was a mine that produced enormous quantities of nickel. Obviously, these explanations have real value. They have worth. In Baltimore, though, the underlying reason is worth no more than five cents. People call Baltimore The Nickel City, because you're likely to get five nickels in change instead of a quarter. It's so likely that banks have to order extra nickels just to keep up with the demand.
In contrast, pennies mean nothing in Baltimore. They don't count as one-fifth of a nickel; they count as nothing. As zero. In fact, ten pennies aren't nearly as good as one solid nickel. In north Baltimore, you're just as likely to find a penny on a sidewalk as a loose stone [6] and almost no one in that part of the city will stoop to pick up either. The reason is straightforward. Everyone needs something or someone to look down upon and pennies are just one step too low to bother with.
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