The Writer's Life 6/19 - Moments

A fleeting moment -- how much significance does it have? I had one of those yesterday. I was walking along, minding my own business, when a female crossing Avenue Z caught my eye. I glanced toward her and she seemed to lower her umbrella to keep me out of her sight. Was that indeed what she had done or was it merely a movement designed to keep out the sparse raindrops? Was I somehow hideous to her? Had she seen me at my book nook and determined I was a loser unworthy of even casting a gaze her way? I’m not even sure how old she was, although I sense her age ranges from 17 to 25. I wouldn’t know her if she passed my way again, which is a good thing, as it eliminates a preconceived notion of her engendered by something that might not have been. Of course, such questions can never be answered and are best dismissed, but that is easier said than done. Just yesterday my most faithful customer, Marie, and I were discussing how we, humans, are our own worst enemies. Even if my perception of the young woman was correct, why would it bother me? So many people have been kind to me, so many wish me well as they pass the floating book shop. Some stop to chat every day. Why would all that positive reinforcement be negated, at least temporarily, by a moment of negativism? The mind works in mysterious ways. At least it didn’t cost me any sleep.

It's no surprise that creeps are politicizing the shooting in South Carolina. When Representative Gabby Giffords of Arizona, a Democrat, was shot by a lunatic, Fox News was blamed until it was found the shooter was a liberal. Rush Limbaugh was blamed for the bombing in Oklahoma City until the first-responders who rushed to the rescue revealed they listened to him every day at the firehouse. The only hope is to identify those who snap before they snap. Take away guns, and the evil will use fire or a homemade bomb or a machete.

Chambers Bay is a beautiful layout, but the condition of its greens, judging by how they look on TV, is unfortunate. The course is making fools of recent Masters champion Ricky Fowler and Tiger Woods, but at this moment 26 players are under par. Suck it up and play.

My thanks to the kind folks who bought books today. Four were in Russian, one in English.

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