Rhythm and Perspective

Library rhythm: There are giggles and barks, but only because it's Halloween. There's clicking, tapping, silence, the hums and wheezes of various machines. Other rhythms are slower or pulsed - an occasional deep breath following a period of concentration, a door shuts, a book is placed on a table, sliding paper, furniture rumbles upstairs. Everything is crisp, bright, organized. Inhaling is like biting into a fist-full of stale chips. I'm surrounded by row after row of shelved books - old books, new books, Setterberg and Seuss books.

If I could direct your attention to the photo on the right. What do you see? A road, buildings, traffic. It's a night shot. Interestingly the traffic is clustered in the top half of the visible road. A pessimist might say the road is half empty, unless she happens to dislike traffic in which case she'd still say the road is half empty, but with a slight smile. An optimist would say the road is half full and smile regardless of what he thinks about traffic. A driver of one of the cars in the photo is thinking it's time to switch to a bike. A biker is probably worried about getting "doored". If I were there I'd probably say something to the tune of, "What a lovely evening. Pity about all the noise. And the road is at half capacity. Get over it!"

Note: This blog is three days away from it's one-month birthday! Yay! Unless you view that as a bad thing. Boo! (NOT a reference to Halloween)