My hat...

[fajrdrako]

On Saturday I went for a walk with maaboroshi, and we went into the shop above Mrs. Tiggy-Winkles on Bank St. I was wearing a hat that walkingowl had given me, with IUP written on it.

A woman stopped me to ask me (rather incredulously) if the IUP on my hat stood for Indiana University of Pennsylvania and I admitted that it did. She pointed to her husband (who was currently browsing little plastic monkeys) and said that he worked there. They lived in Pennsylvania but were visiting Ottawa, and the last thing she expected to see was someone in an IUP hat. I explained that the hat was a present from someone who was studying there, in the sociology department. I promised to tell walkingowl that I'd run into Mr. Meil of the psychology department.

Funny world.

Comments

[widget-alley.livejournal.com]

I love moments like that! We're all so very close to one another.

In unrelated questions, have you ever read any Alan Watts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts)? I'm reading his autobiography, In My Own Way, and am barely two pages and the introduction in and already thinking that you would love it. His writing style is quintessentially English, and he really ponders the meanings of words, which I adore, and is just generally delightful thus far. It's about his search for enlightenment, but not, you know, in the annoying way.

But at any rate, the point is that: God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

We're all so very close to one another.

That is so true. Small world. One wonders what the odds are but I suppose there's no answer to that.

I read some books by Alan Watts years ago, probably in the 1980s, but I haven't read his autobiography. I'll put it on my TBA list, thanks!