A spontaneous poem written by tapping my left thumb and right pointer on my iPhone using the WordPress app to capture a earlier tonight moment…
Conversations with my neighbors…
He looked like Santa clause sipping his coffee by the pinecone waterfall and I paused and was in awe of the sound of water infront of me…its gentle flow
(I’ve wanted to figure out how to only have nature sound surround me not the loud rushing of traffic that races by me….back to the poem)
Seeing me stare at the fountain I guess
He said “mam pardon me do you have a minute”
To which I said yes
M’names Gerri and they call me Geography Gerri
I’d like to ask you a few questions if you’re into Trivia this fine evening
He wasn’t flirting
He was being kind
I felt calm as I tend to trust these moments are the sculpting of divine Mind
I said sure
And wasn’t scared to pause and listen
My whole day has been spent in following my heart so I have learned to trust these moments
I was walking into the local market to pick up some things for tonight
He said like a boy all of 8 tho he was prolly 9x that
lets play trivia and I said I’m ok with that
He said first some questions then a story
and before I knew it he was tossing questions to me
And so I paused and denied the self condemning lie that I’m too slow and I’m not gonna answer fast enough) and he’s gonna give up on me)
Ready? Set? Go…
state flowers…
Minnesota
He asks: What’s the opposite of sweet
I say : Sour!
He asks: What’s another word for sour?
I say : Bitter (and then I’m all good job tre!)
He says: Ok good
Then:
Clue for the
Second word:
What’s a tree grow from?
I say: Root
(And of course here I wanna digress and talk about my nickname but I dont….heee)
Bitter + root
Get it bitter root
My thoughts were racing
I wanted to see it
This is what I’ve always down when with someone I am conversing
I wanna see what they say
I make the images in my thinking
It’s like filming the conversation and it helps me listen
(This is why I was never slow though everyone called me such
I was making movies in my imagining and many children do this and such)
Ok back to geography Gerri
He says Next state
North Dakota
Any idea?
I say No I said though I know now I must drive there!
🙂
There he went and he fired away:
Gimme the opposite…
Opposite of tame:
I say (wild)
Fill in the blank.
Little house on the?
To which I say (prairie)
And I squeezed in “I loved that book!”
The. Reminded myself not to interrupt:)
He went on:
A four letter word flower?
Me: rose!
Say it altogether
And I had to think
what did is just say ???
oh…
wild. prairie. rose.
Ok now for birds said he
And trust me by now I’m realizing I’m getting a bit chilly but he is so into this so I think do one more than do some farewell bidding… (I can be gracious I thought)
It’s not impatience
It’s not frustration
It’s more I wanted to not overstay my welcome
We will try state birds
Ready?
What’s the state bird of Oklahoma?
Me: gee I don’t know.
Him:
what cuts paper?
To which I respond :
scissors!
And then I was going to go on a sidetrack of how technically I should answer paper cutter but oh I digress
He says good!
Now Fill in the blank
A dog wags its ______?
And I say (Tail)
He asks What’s an airplane do? _____
I say (Fly ) and I left out how much I wanna learn 🙂
He says
K…. And a Pitcher throws a ball to a :
And I’m thinking cmon Tre you know this don’t say the batter and I answer “catcher” and he grins and says
you bet!
Put it altogether and you have
Scissors tail fly catcher
Then he told me of a story about his work distributing bread
And who bought out wonder bread
And how overcame alcoholism
And how so many are still addicted
And I shared how holsum bakery had a hub in Miami
And he said thank you young lady for sharing trivia with geography Gerri
And I said thank you for sharing your coffee time with me
And off I went reflecting
And off he walked on
And in these moments of humanity
I feel more good and love than I fear our world
Or believe much is going wrong
What each of us does each day matters so deeply much
How much we are all starving for connecting of the real stuff
I wish I had asked him “instead of taking another drink what did you choose? “
Bc I find whether it’s alcohol food or drugs or internet or or or
the person has to feel able allowed and already approved to choose to allow love…
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