Kendall is here

By kendallishere

Margie and Kendall in Outer Space

Today it was 99F/37.2C when I reached Margie’s apartment. I proposed we stay in and do some drawing, and I pulled out the art materials I’ve left at her house. Right away she insisted: “I’m no good at art.” I pointed out the watercolors on the wall. She made them back 2008-2009, when we were new friends and she was in a writing group and a painting group. She said she does like the one she painted of an ocean scene. “It’s not that I did a good job, but I love the water.”

Yes, I said drifting off a bit, it’s one of the four elements. 

“Four elements? What are the others?”

I said earth, air, fire, and water. She wondered which element came first. We sat in silence like a couple of stoned twenty-somethings till she said, “It must have been air. Because first there was space, you know, outer space. And there might be beings in other places, and I would love to meet them.”

I said so would I. Maybe they would be kinder and more generous than human beings. 

“But maybe if we went there, it would be intrusive.” Yes, I said, maybe it would. She started to draw. “This is outer space,” she said. We sat quietly for a long time as she worked on her picture. When she decided it was done, I said her drawing reminded me of a photograph made by the Hubbell Telescope. “The what?” I said you have a book of pictures made by a camera in outer space. 

“I do?” Yes, I said, I know because I gave it to you. I found it and showed her a photo made by the Hubbell that I thought resembled her drawing. 

“Do you think I accidentally copied that picture?” I said no, not copied, but maybe some pictures from this book are in the pool of images in your mind. 

“Pool of images? I like that. The what?” 

The pool of images in your mind. 

“I have a pool of images. In my mind. I like that. I love the water.”

I see that if people live long enough to become really old, they can get stoned without having to use any substances at all.

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