sophia, serendipity & synchronicity
i'm noticing a pattern: amazing conversations with strangers. they all happen to be wise women in their 60's+...in a shop, on the sidewalk, today happened to be in the grocery store aisle. the closest way i can describe it is if you've ever looked at the 2D books with images that, if you look long enough, suddenly a 3D image appears. one moment you are going about a very ordinary existence and the next an entire window of wisdom opens before you. today i came around the corner of an aisle with my cart and what i noticed first was her peaceful expression and radiant skin from the inside-out. most people around her were in a hurry, tense, angry-seeming almost, distracted at the very least, not at all at home in themselves. she was in a motorized scooter and had her silver-grey hair pulled into a bun and held in place with a black stick-pin. she stood out from the crowd in that she was very much at home in her own skin with a beautiful transparency about her. as we got
