31 Things Not Overheard (3 of 3)
December 2022 — In The Chimeric City of New York
21. Women on sidewalk with clipboard —
Excuse me can you spare a minute? Don’t be apprehensive—I don’t represent any organization and I’m not seeking any signatures. This clipboard is merely a theatrical prop. All I’d like to do is to cajole you with a couple mouthfuls of balderdash. Jive ya with a sprinkle of gibberish. I’d like to walk a few steps with you—traverse this bit of sidewalk while I tantalize you with some trivial tripe. I have a PhD in poppycock. Valueless vapid vernacular is my specialty. Heck, maybe after a while you might just get compelled to dispatch some mad-hatter mumbo jumbo back towards my ears.
22. At a meditation retreat —
Consider a singularity. Something that never existed before, and that won’t ever again. Consider the reality that you are a one of a kind. If you weren’t here how different everything would be. Where would that cushion you are sitting on be right now? Everything would be that much different, an alternative distribution. You are one possibility that happened—and there are billions that didn’t. The air over the city would have different flight patterns of birds if you were not there to put seeds out on your fire escape.
