Haunting

Part of my fixation with the desert is that it haunts me. It comes up again and again, whether I force it to consciously or unconsciously.

Today's haunting is not the desert.

It's a person.

So I used to work with this guy when I taught. I hate to put someone else's life up on the internet, but....well, he left the high school after he finished his dissertation to go to India to find the meaning of life I believe. Then he moved to South Africa to run an AIDs clinic. And now he works at a clinic in Boyle Heights.

That's all fine and dandy. Really. It has no bearing on my life as I have only heard these stories secondhand along the way as I have stayed in the Verb loop.

Then, on New Year's eve I ran into him at Ralph's. The two weekends ago I saw him walking up Temple. And today, I saw him at church and he came and sat next to me.

I don't know what this is about other than I find it slightly eerie. Not him himself, just the chance meetings. It's almost like he has a message for me....I don't know if I can take this right now.....

And back to my desert prayers.