“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” -- Albert Einstein
After the haze and fog of recent days subsided, a crystal clear day greeted us in the Bay Area today. That didn’t help traffic, which still sucked. But it did contribute to the kind of mood where you feel hypersensitive to details. Here, much like in Perth, Seattle, and other coastal cities, the light is special, so when the weather is right, almost every detail reveals itself.
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” -- Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein had a way of expressing things succinctly, and in a way that encourages a person like me. One of my favorite quotations from him is:
“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.”
Thus, with all the numbers swirling around us these days (and despite my love of numerical patterns), today my goal is to honor the normative, non-numerical, instinctive, intuitive sides of life.
So, here is what came drifting down my street tonight. As I have mentioned before, one of my favorite Internet sites is Found and this item is very much in that spirit.
(If you click on this, you will see a larger version.)
The problem with this one is, intuitively, that it does feel real to me, but contrived. I’d have to say this is most likely a writing exercise, a joke, or some lines from a play. Just a guess, with no criticism intended to its author in case it is actually a real story.
Truth is, naturally, stranger than fiction, and there’s a cliché I can live with.
(This is an excerpt from an essay I published twenty years ago, in October 2006.)
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