A Day's Events. Pt. !

Yesterday was a day like many other days. I decided to get my hair cut, and was in an extreme enough mood to go for the buzz cut that I sometimes get there. It's also a cheaper option, but that wasn't the reason I had at the time--I wanted it all off. Anyway, the blonde rookie showed me to her chair and razored the whole thing off in minutes. On my way out, the lady who'd been waiting when I went in said something like "a whole different head of hair now" and I chuckled modestly, then she said "you'll have the girls following you down the street" and I looked at the blondie and she was smiling as she entered the amount due into the debit machine. I tipped her 2 dollars and left, smiling, for the seminary. I was on a high. I nodded happily to the lady who was walking her dog on the path--it was a bit of a strange encounter, and would have been awkward had I not been in such a good mood. She looked back as I approached the two of them--the dog was a collie of some sort, and was trailing behind her--and decided to halt both of their progresses and let me by. I thought this displayed a lack of community spirit and, combatting this, made sure to look her in the eye as I passed the two and nodded. I continued down the path and was excited all the way by nature, which I considered, despite my clothing and shoes, to be a part of. Strange rhododendron plants (I call them that because a name should match the odd of a thing) had sprouted up on either side of the path.

The strangeness of this earth, with its vastly different types of life, hit me. Yet following these strange spasms came feelings of homeliness, as if everything had been created for that moment alone, for me to, after being taken away by the seeming absurdity of it all, come back into a renewed relationship with all that is.