Funny Thing, Memory
Feb. 8th, 2009 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perzephone
Thought & Memory are Odin's ravens... Hugin & Munin or something like that... someone's writing a book called Thought & Memory and of course I always think of Odin when I see the title.
Anway, I am full of thought & not so much memory. Friday after being fired, I was waiting for Rob to come pick me up. I probably looked like a bag lady - had my purse, a bookbag, and two plastic grocery bags with my personal belongings from work. It was sprinkling rain & there's really no place to sit & wait for someone by the RJC... I found a service ramp across the street next to the secured parking lot & plopped down to play Tetris...
I heard a 'caw!' echo across the buildings & looked up to see an honest-to-goodness raven fly overhead. It was huge. At the time, it seemed like the most important thing in the world - for those few seconds of watching the raven fly past the building behind me and out of my view, my social self-consciousness of being thought of as a panhandler, my lost job, my future security, all gone - all that mattered was that raven.
It's nice to have little moments like that here & there.
Anway, I am full of thought & not so much memory. Friday after being fired, I was waiting for Rob to come pick me up. I probably looked like a bag lady - had my purse, a bookbag, and two plastic grocery bags with my personal belongings from work. It was sprinkling rain & there's really no place to sit & wait for someone by the RJC... I found a service ramp across the street next to the secured parking lot & plopped down to play Tetris...
I heard a 'caw!' echo across the buildings & looked up to see an honest-to-goodness raven fly overhead. It was huge. At the time, it seemed like the most important thing in the world - for those few seconds of watching the raven fly past the building behind me and out of my view, my social self-consciousness of being thought of as a panhandler, my lost job, my future security, all gone - all that mattered was that raven.
It's nice to have little moments like that here & there.
