Mysteries of the Long and Winding Road......

Driving home last night, I am confronted by an interesting sight, an art car, well more precisely an art truck. Perhaps art cars are a strictly Houston thing. I am not sure. People turn their vehicles into moving works of art and/or political statements. So last night I see this truck, it has rooster plates glued to the tail gate, an iguana attached to the door, and written across the back windshield is “Peace is the absence of separation.” This confused me. I sent out frantic text messages to random friends asking for them to explain this to me. All I could think was “untrue, untrue”. I pictured warring tribes, religions, cultures and the only thing keeping them at peace is separation. So I get a text from a friend that explains, “When I am with you I feel at peace and that is the absence of separation.” How fucking cool is that? Suddenly I love this art car driving Texas chick. I wish her and her rooster plates all the best.


I have a friend that lives quite a distance from the office. Her drive home in the evening is usually 1.5 hours. She often encounters quite extraordinary things. Much in the vain of Dr. Seuss, oh, the things that she sees. She will often call me or send me text messages regarding the more interesting sights. Such as there is a naked man driving, guy hitting 6 foot bong while driving, hot guy flirting with her, things of that nature. Last night (it was an odd night all around) she sends me a message that a guy is brushing his teeth while driving. Her concern is where he was going to spit. I reply that perhaps, he is a swallower. This is all the more funny to me because I know that she is not a swallower. Perhaps, the moral of this story is that there are things that you do not need to know about your friends.