A Couple of Observations

I am no angel.

However, I got a glimpse today of
how far I've strayed.

A friend (who happens to be a guy)
and I were spending time together
today, and at one point we were
going to play Wii. He told me to
get my "strap on," in regard to
the remote. However, my mind went
elsewhere.

I am imagining - given this world
in which I spend a lot of time -
you know where my mind went.

My friend knows what I do, so he
just kinda shook his head when
he realized how I took it.

Made me wonder how sexual my world
has become.

The other observation came when we
went out for a walk. I was in his
neighborhood, and I was taking
pictures of things that to him,
were "common."

I said that the mark of art is to
make the common, uncommon. I like
to find things appealing that others
don't necessarily even pay attention
to, and bring out their beauty.

I was loving taking pictures, and
at one point I went to take a picture
between two houses, and he was trying
to get me to stop. I didn't know why,
until we were walking away.

Turns out that the house is a big
drug den that is a big problem in
the neighborhood. Now before you
wonder what kind of neighborhood I
was in, I should tell you that it
is a nice one...so nice that apparently
the drug dealers decided to move in, too.

Guess it's another way of saying
that within all things there are
dichotomies. In plainness there is
beauty. In beauty there is ugliness.

I would suppose it is all in what
you are willing to see, or where
your attention is drawn by those
things around you.

Where is your attention?

I hope you had a great weekend!