Counting blue cars

UPDATE: Zissou showed up. He came in, ate, puked on the carpet, slept with me for a couple of hours, then pawed my face to get me to let him out again.

"So much for romanticizing that relationship," I remarked. Nicole replied, "Yeah. Typical romantic relationship."

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There are so many things that can only be done early in the morning, in this kind of smothering heat. Removing morning glories from the junipers. Patching the shed. Cleaning out the garage (as if!). My top priority this morning was a bike ride on the cool, quiet Nature Trail. One of these days I'll take a camera and get some shots of this trail, secluded and nearly empty of humans. I could even hear cicadas!

The people I did pass all seemed unusually friendly. One Mexican fellow w/cellphone waved at me vigorously as if we were old friends, and I'd be offended if he didn't greet me. That was ... odd. But maybe I was checking people out more closely than usual, thereby making them notice me.

See, I passed a runner going the other direction - so saw his face clearly - and after we smiled and passed, I thought, "That guy looks like Mike!" Dear old friend that I adore, although we've never been especially close. He went to college in Edwardsville, and still has friends there, so I suppose it could have been Mike. "Probably not," said my brain, but I decided to overrule it: It WAS Mike, and I just passed him on the bike trail! Isn't that cool?

Since we make our own reality, this is now mine. I saw a dear old friend on the bike trail this morning, and it's going to color my thinking for the rest of the day. "I saw Mike!" <sudden smile>

"Okayyyyy," says my skeptical brain ... "did you TALK to him?"

Nah. What would we have said? "OMG, OMG, it's so good to see you, how ARE you?!!!" <snortlet> Consider it said. Simply knowing - or deciding - that we had this unplanned encounter gives me the same feeling of delight. All that's missing is a hug, and dude, we were both too sweaty to go in for that anyway.

Comments

[Nicole]

I like your approach to reality! Though it's important to note, sometimes truth IS stranger than fiction ... just sayin'.