What started out as a peaceful moment of contemplative reflection; a moment shared with nature as the migratory tiger and monarch butterflies made their way past his window, to cooler temperatures, somehow digressed into a too familiar meditation. Shirley had suggested, he think about it. Hers was prayerful discernment, his wasn’t. It’s true, his mind turned inward, his focus was on the self, his attention captured by the drumming of his own marching feet, but he knows it’s not the same. Not the open vistas of a limitless horizon. Not the call to a higher purpose. Not the answer a seeker would recognize. This is more like asking, who’s the leader of the band; who has the biggest Johnson on the block; who likes chocolate pie and knows where to get it; who has three dozen, grade 63, number eight self tapping, half inch, counter sunk Philip’s head, all stainless sheet metal screws; who’s your daddy; who’s Luke Skywalker’s real father; who’s a volunteer park ranger; who invented the Beatles; who’s the task master of the house; who’s Shirley’s sugar? Yes Ken we know, now try telling someone else’s dog what to do.
What started out as a peaceful moment of contemplative reflection; a moment shared with nature as the migratory tiger and monarch butterflies made their way past his window, to cooler temperatures, somehow digressed into a too familiar meditation. Shirley had suggested, he think about it. Hers was prayerful discernment, his wasn’t. It’s true, his mind turned inward, his focus was on the self, his attention captured by the drumming of his own marching feet, but he knows it’s not the same. Not the open vistas of a limitless horizon. Not the call to a higher purpose. Not the answer a seeker would recognize. This is more like asking, who’s the leader of the band; who has the biggest Johnson on the block; who likes chocolate pie and knows where to get it; who has three dozen, grade 63, number eight self tapping, half inch, counter sunk Philip’s head, all stainless sheet metal screws; who’s your daddy; who’s Luke Skywalker’s real father; who’s a volunteer park ranger; who invented the Beatles; who’s the task master of the house; who’s Shirley’s sugar? Yes Ken we know, now try telling someone else’s dog what to do.