a few random thoughts...

today, a man told me i was beautiful.
and then he proposed to me.
he has a traumatic brain injury, but still.
it was quite nice.
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if i had to pick one thing i liked about children, it would be their complete naivete.
so oblivious, they'll talk to anybody.
she laughed and smiled and tried to understand the drunk man on the street car.
probably had no idea he was a man without a home.
didn't notice his smell.
probably didn't even care, even though her mother was chiding her. it was a different language than mine, but i knew what that mother was saying.
and she didn't even flinch. just kept on smiling. and listening.
and maybe making his day.
i think sometimes, we adults, should try to remember what that was like.
and incorporate a little child into our everyday interactions.
how would that fit into societal norms?
would we be deemed crazy? unfit? unwell?
mentally ill?

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Music to my ears: Mark Lanegan's Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
Food for thought: Identity by Milan Kundera