Critical Colloquium

You told me who was around me, who I had to avoid, when to pause and when I was clear. You said, Everyone is looking. Everyone notices. You told me I looked good, that I looked peaceful, You look good Jill. You look peaceful, and asked me how I was. Sometimes people would bump me, or brush against me and I would flinch. You’d go: Oh sorry! Oh excuse me. Were you me or the person who bumped into me? At one point you said, there is no one around you; the streets are full, but oddly enough, you are clear for 20 meters. I said, Its only you and me, everyone else is gone. Why would this have felt so different if I had been holding the phone?

You said it was strange when I closed my eyes. We went back to the moment and you showed me the people who had been around me. Look, you said, He is telling his wife you are meditating. I was meditating. It was quiet then, when I could not see.  We were in sync.