Sitting apart from the others at the lake. It feels like being stranded on the planet sometimes--do you feel that?--maybe most especially around tea time, that slaggardly time of day.
I just got home from the lake–– a cup of tea would help my gray mood. I'm going to go make one right now.
I hope your hearts are keeping their chins up, or something like that... ––XO Fresca
I just got home from the lake–– a cup of tea would help my gray mood. I'm going to go make one right now.
I hope your hearts are keeping their chins up, or something like that... ––XO Fresca
I feel this too sometimes. This sense of mutual cautious avoidance makes it feel like we're aliens to each other. On the other hand, we're all avoiding each other together.
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me: the newest layer of the nervous system that only modern mammals have is basically what keeps us from automatically attacking strangers in our proximity. Now it's like strangers, instead of feeling like people we don't know, have the old razzle dazzle of danger about them.
I'd like to explain "razzle dazzle of danger". We're being asked to consider each other as dangerous and for me that has taken the form hearing the Star Trek sound effect from The Naked Time whenever I pass someone or touch a doorknob. You know, the shaker like a rattlesnake?
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ReplyDeleteYes, Star Trek's rattlesnake warming music! Alternate music choice, the fight scene music from "Amok Time".
"we're all avoiding each other together"
LOL!
True--and there's a weird sort of togetherness in that. Sometimes people smile and nod as we skirt around one another---
THIS COULD BE CHOREOGRAPHED:
The Pandemic Dance!
That's so interesting about how our brains need a braking mechanism for NOT automatically attacking one another.
I read about bears after watching the horrific doc "Grizzly Man"--they only tolerate being so close to one another without attacking because they're distracted by the ample flow of salmon.
That's their focus: eating.
Maybe that's what restaurants are to us?
A way we can be super close without feeling threatened--because we're all there to eat!
(When the salmon stopped running, the guy filming the grizzlies just looked like food to them. Fair enough.)