Man On A Street

I have always admired, what nowadays is called, 'elfin' appearance' -- slight, delicate yet strong, often pale ... Scandinavian mythological origins, online sources would say... (we have our own old myths -- the dalakitnons -- people of the banyan trees). Later sources would say inspiration for these would come from ingesting psychedelic drugs (i have only ever tried the Panaeolus species of magic mushrooms [in college]) -- "Machine/Fractal Elves," some would say. But i've always been drawn to the elfin phenotype since i was a child -- it couldn't have been the mushroom tea... So when, in our primate past, did we encounter -- and retain -- the memory of elves?

Two of us from the old Mulberry dorm 'family' went to Bohol to visit our friend's grave last February. We were met by another member at the port and we rode by bike from Tagbilaran to Batuan. It was raining all day but it was a good reunion. We lighted cigarettes -- we had no candles -- over the grave. It was good. We left the next day and our Boholano friend took us for a fly-by at the 'chocolate hills' viewing site where there's a hotel on the hilltop. Who would have thought we would find magic mushrooms on the hotel lawn? Well hello . . . old friends.

Indifference . . . it's heavy in the city. Some bask in it, sometimes it's alienating. . . . My phone was stolen from my office locker today (this is Cebu, afterall). I did not think this much introspection can come from the loss of a cheap cell phone. I've been basing my identity four years on a phone number. . . . Thank goodness for that heads-up. :p