indian summer

Are you one of the people you'd look at if, say, you were one of the people sitting at a Vietnamese cafe eating a spicy chicken sandwich watching people pass by on Clement Street?

If you answered yes, continue walking.

What would you say to a person who says, I have one cigarette I shouldn't smoke and two matches in case one goes out before my cigarette is lit? Would you take the cigarette from that person's lips and break it in two? Blow out the match? Or sympathize with the dilemma while watching the person smoke?

Can you imagine waking up one morning as an orange, then being picked at random from a bowl and placed on a cutting board to be sliced into six perfectly proportioned slices?

You can imagine that? Congratulations.

Has it ever occured to you how much is not worth knowing, much less thinking about; how much you know about such things and how much time you spend thinking about them?

God it's such a gorgeous day even the shadows break into applause over our existence.

And please continue walking, whoever you are.