How the Universe looks from here for Saturday, December 23, 2006

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Saturday, December 23, 2006

Rainbow Girl

There is a woman who slumps along the streets of my town as she has for years, dressed in rainbow tie-dyes and muttering in alien tongues, smiling like an ambassador from another planet. Sometimes her hair is wild, other times, her head is shaved. Her skin is grey and smudged. There is a shadow that hangs over her rainbows. When she was 19, some 'friends' treated her, without her knowledge, to seven hits of acid that they thought wasn't very good stuff, and murdered her brain. I don't know her... Sign in to see full entry.

Someone once asked how I decided whether or not to give to a beggar.

I was in New York City at the time, and there were beggars on the subway working the cars with a sob storyand a paper cup. There were nuns in pairs or threes sitting in corners of town with coffee cans and blessings. There were people sick and deranged muttering and chatting and complaining and asking for money as if spare change was an afterthought. There was a young man, a music student, playing Vivaldi down in one of the City's deepest subway tunnels, one of the old round ones with tiled... Sign in to see full entry.

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