UPSTATE NOTIONS

YOU WANT to KNOW?

YOU want to know WHAT I saw today?

Today, I saw a woman in a wheelchair, lift her right hand and arm, using two fingers that worked from the other hand  

Today, I heard a nurse quote from the Bible, “Make sounds of JOY”….

“How beautiful,”, I thought to myself.

Today, I saw the Chinese woman on the northwest corner at 66th St., Subway exit, again asking for money while singing a song.

I’ve seen her there many times over the past few years.

And, when, I had seen enough and heard enough: the impatient, horn, honking, drivers,

the sidewalk washers, 

guards at the Bank of America,

 bakery workers advising us to buy cake for tomorrow’s birthday tomorrow,

the piercing sounds of ambulance runners from a local hospital hawking business…

And when I’ve seen enough, judged, and lost my peace…

I lifted up my eyes and looked as far and wide as I could, returning myself from judgment to non-recognition of the workers, the walkers, the screamers, the panhandler, the drivers, the honkers, and everything else that keeps in my thinking mind,

INSTEAD of my HEART!