I started this blog as a way to write down what passed through my mind usually imperceptibly, fleetingly before dissolving into faint memory. Recently I've started writing them quickly then saving them as drafts to be returned to later. This makes for more polished writing but posts that are a little less spontaneous. I'm sitting in a cafe that's packed to the rafters with people. I had to be quick to snag a seat right before a girl silently moving towards the same table.  Then felt bad when I saw her leaving the place with her coffee in hand into the frigidly cold afternoon. I thought maybe I should have told her she could have the extra seat until another table opened up. Too late. Then right on time another customer came and asked to sit in the extra seat until another one appeared. Balance was restored. 

This photo I shot from below in my train seat because the odd perspective caught my eye. I heard that cats lie on their backs and look up at you and the world out of boredom. I was a little bored when I took this. It looked as if the bare trees and the white-clouded sky belonged to different worlds or were existing at two separate times. I earned a free coffee at this place so I got a turmeric latte. Cause I'm bored, I guess. It's not terrible and the golden milk looks like a melted gemstone in the red mug. Earlier this week when I was trying to "bright-side" my day, this song by First Aid Kit came on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKL4X0PZz7M

And now again today it appeared. Yesterday the sign from above was a quote from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz about Charlie Brown, the ultimate loser, never giving up, a fact I had never really thought about in a deliberate way. The belief that "everything happens for a reason" collides daily with what we perceive as unconscionable injustices, but usually emerges a little bruised and battered for another day. At least that's how things look  at the present moment.