Saturday, November 08, 2008

Avoidance

Okay okay! I know I should be talking about how awesome Mira's Intensive is but instead I'm just going to tell my weird breakfast experience.

I went into this cafe' near the studio because I thought, "I've never been here before."
When I walked in all of the guys working there were immediately attentive and overly nice. Like in they way you would feel if you accidentally walked into a recruitment office.
I ordered a coffee. I paid $2.50 for a small "fair trade" variety which was all they had.
Then the guy asked me "How are you going to take action today?"
I'm not sure I know what that means. I felt like I was expected to recite some secret Hippy mantra.
I told him, "Well, I'm taking a workshop today?"
It took them almost five minutes to make my small black coffee and then I got the hell out of there.
When I opened up the coffee and took a sip I instantly recognized it for what it really was...
Nescafe.
I know Nescafe! I drank enough of it in China with Otis and Elizabeth and there is just know way to recreate that froth you get on the top after mixing in the powder. Plus that wateriness like you had an iced coffee and all the ice melted so you reheated it.
I think maybe I was being punished for not knowing the proper response to the "how are you going to take action today" question.
Strange people.
Strange world.

lovely

1 Comments:

Blogger mom said...

Act through nonaction is verse 63 in most Tao Te Ching books.Here is a buddhist/hippie mantra,gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha (pronounced ga-tay,ga-tay pa-ra-ga-tay,pa-ra-sam-ga-tay bo-dhi sva-ha)This is the mantra of the rerfection of wisdom.

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