quick note on hazard perception

[translucent]

Left off trimming paper to pause for breakfast (fix that blood-sugar low!). Put down scissors. Noticed box-cutter, blade out, on table. Part-verbal but mostly pre-verbal thought signalling something very close to oh, I'd better turn that offHot electric irons you turn off to deactivate/begin to make safe. Box-cutters you retract to do the same

Comments

[northsea]

01. you've made me want a bagel
02. i have such a panic-reaction to an open blade, now! after footstab '09... i automatically & without thinking make my knives safe.
03. i love the body's learned habits!
04. it's almost buddhist, isn't it? the switching-off of the mind/self...
05. i just like fives...

[anonymous]

Several years ago you found you had some free rail tickets and wondered where to go with them. I suggested a destination. Do you remember?

Just now you popped into my head and I wondered what you were up to.

[translucent]

I got your message when you posted it; ever so many things kept happening, though. Of course I remember you - yes! (I checked in on you at DL for a while, and even a couple of times over the intervening years. Odd ties

[translucent]

hang on, November 2004. My anniversaries are all mixed up. 2005's moment of return of the day I spent watching fireworks from the sixth floor, short like dandelions.