Civil War enactors march in parade
with sweat-stained hats and flintlocks;
man with dog & child breaks out patriotic t-shirt;
cop chats with friends while remaining alert for coming columns;
Princess of something in convertible, waves;
Drum major for high school band marches parade route
mostly backwards, contrary to below......
Boy mayor in traditional uniform
with lots of spotlight
- blank pavement fore and aft -
rides his temporal wave
and figuratively shows Waukesha
the way ahead.
(Cooperative shadow courtesy of the sun.)
Spectators watch for more exciting things.
....................
Spotted from our Odd Fellows window
on Saturday, 5-26-12
..................
Paradox
by Parker Palmer
"Hospitality
means letting the stranger remain a stranger
while offering
acceptance nonetheless.
It means honoring
the fact that strangers already have
a relationship -
rooted in our common humanity -
without having to
build one on intimate interpersonal knowledge,
without having to
become friends.
It means valuing
the strangeness of the stranger
even letting the
stranger speak a language
you cannot speak
or, sing a song
you cannot join with -
resisting the
temptation to reduce the relation to some
lowest common
denominator,
since all
language and all music
is already
human."
- from The Company of Strangers
