Well I suppose the times they are a changing for the good hopefully, bc for the first time in quite a while I can drive by a grocery store without feeling the invisible tractor beam that summons me to go in…and engage!
People in a grocery store are for me like labels in a grocery store…they come at you!..fast. And each one has a different angle, a different synopsis, a different modus operandi. How can I believe in absolute truth?!
Shelving that theology elephant, how do I get on people’s level. Here’s a thought! Break the ice! Weird how strangers like so much not to be strangers that they would smile at a warning disguised as a complement.
Now smiles of course are misleading. Smiles are like bullets at times, defending one against embarrassment?…failure? But smiles are more often than you’d think a landing pad rising from the bottom of the ocean. An oasis in the Serengeti that says ‘I’m on the line but you might want to use a basket’.
A rare commodity you always underestimate, smiles provoke a sense of belonging. A smile might not communicate a open gate to the soul, but it to me always says, ‘of course I have a soul, but I’ve lost my map and I don’t seem the point of it anymore’….
TBC
Lost in the Moment 