[Messages From Afar]
I received a wonderful card in the mail today. The message inside really set my heart at ease, and I have had the biggest, brightest smile on my face ever since. Traci, my love, THANK YOU.
Today while I was downtown picking up phytoplankton for my filterfeeders, I saw a woman at the bus station with two facial tattoos. The one that caught my attention was on her forehead, dead center. I'm always interested in people who choose to get their faces tattooed. It's obviously tremendously difficult to "hide" such ink... but what honestly disturbed me was that as I walked past her, I tried to meet her eyes and smile... and she looked away. It struck me as sad, that a woman with that much power didn't have enough internal... shining, I guess you could call it, to meet the world face on and SMILE.
This isn't to say I don't go through my days of hiding from people. I do, most certainly. Some days when I'm out, I deliberately choose to wear long sleeves and hoodies and jeans, and stay within myself, not feeling quite prepared to deal with the outside world.
It was just something that caught my attention.
Today while I was downtown picking up phytoplankton for my filterfeeders, I saw a woman at the bus station with two facial tattoos. The one that caught my attention was on her forehead, dead center. I'm always interested in people who choose to get their faces tattooed. It's obviously tremendously difficult to "hide" such ink... but what honestly disturbed me was that as I walked past her, I tried to meet her eyes and smile... and she looked away. It struck me as sad, that a woman with that much power didn't have enough internal... shining, I guess you could call it, to meet the world face on and SMILE.
This isn't to say I don't go through my days of hiding from people. I do, most certainly. Some days when I'm out, I deliberately choose to wear long sleeves and hoodies and jeans, and stay within myself, not feeling quite prepared to deal with the outside world.
It was just something that caught my attention.