Buckeye State of Mind
Posted on Jan 13th, 2006
by 
Casey
Casey
I notice i am sitting in a coffee shop in Canal Winchester,OH, strange...
Visiting the family of my significant other, reading Balzac,the latest assignment from my Book club (a novel approach to a book club in which each member must buy the book to read for the other 2 members; we find this encourages participation:)
For lack of a high speed connection, i am forced to the local coffee shop to take care of bidness. Nerding-out over my laptop in a small town is a curious thing. The tempo I have developed to perform in the fast-paced business world sits in stark contrast to the laid back stride of these folks. I should take notes. multi-tasking here is sipping a latte and chatting with your classmates about the youth group prayer chain.
I love travel when i allow myself to soak in the landscape a bit, the human landscape. I find this shift in perspective to be liberating. 'The world' is a very different place for these folks; for eveyone we meet really. i notice some similaities to 'my world,' Postal Service' over the satellite radio, green tea with honey in it..but there is something very different in the co-creation happening around me. or is there.
Enlightentment to me is getting closer to the source, with less of this 'filter' that makes the cafe look different to me than it does to this man singing along to the pop tune only implicitly about jesus. i could be wrong,,seems like a worthwhile goal though.
ahhh, 'the Postal Service' again, this has to be a CD changer...
Visiting the family of my significant other, reading Balzac,the latest assignment from my Book club (a novel approach to a book club in which each member must buy the book to read for the other 2 members; we find this encourages participation:)
For lack of a high speed connection, i am forced to the local coffee shop to take care of bidness. Nerding-out over my laptop in a small town is a curious thing. The tempo I have developed to perform in the fast-paced business world sits in stark contrast to the laid back stride of these folks. I should take notes. multi-tasking here is sipping a latte and chatting with your classmates about the youth group prayer chain.
I love travel when i allow myself to soak in the landscape a bit, the human landscape. I find this shift in perspective to be liberating. 'The world' is a very different place for these folks; for eveyone we meet really. i notice some similaities to 'my world,' Postal Service' over the satellite radio, green tea with honey in it..but there is something very different in the co-creation happening around me. or is there.
Enlightentment to me is getting closer to the source, with less of this 'filter' that makes the cafe look different to me than it does to this man singing along to the pop tune only implicitly about jesus. i could be wrong,,seems like a worthwhile goal though.
ahhh, 'the Postal Service' again, this has to be a CD changer...
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balzac
April 2008