Movie Moments
Driving east on Mt. Auburn, just before it merges with Mass Ave, a little more awake and alert than I usually am at that point in the my drive... and a flutter of flower petals comes down from the trees above the road... just as an Enya song comes up on the iPod (via random shuffle.) My first thought was "how nicely choreographed". My second thought was to flash back to a high school friend's ranting about solipsism ("So if I close my eyes, you really will go away?" "See? you get it!") and how, if I didn't have a good sense of how tuned people are for extracting non-existant patterns from noise, I could get *really* paranoid...