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Today at work, I spent the first half of the day being a volunteer coordinator of a section of Bank of America volunteers. Apparently they have to do it and are paid for their time. I don't know who's running the banks while all these people are trimming grass and mulching. It also felt weird telling these older workplace people what to do; in fact, it was also weird seeing them outside of a bank - I think people can sometimes forget that those they get services from are people too. Maybe this is due to the short exposure we have of them.
Of course, corporate volunteers means a quality lunch. More lunches were delivered than the expected number of volunteers, and fewer volunteers arrived than were expected. So out of eight Panera Bread Co. vegetarian lunches, seven were left over. Yes! But the one I got had no chips, so I sneaked a nectarine and several donuts and bar foods away. Today was a cut-loose junk food sort of day. Also, they left about twenty gallons of orange juice at the center.
Later in the day, we took the children birding and one of the girls found a hummingbird (probably a ruby-throated hummingbird) sitting totally still on a branch almost at the top of a giant cottonwood. First of all, I don't know how she spotted something so small on a tree. Second, the find made me wonder about suggestion. She said "hummingbird" and I saw it instantly.
The same could go for puzzles or anything else, where a word or phrase suddenly brings everything into focus, or changes the focus.
The other question is if the hummingbird is even there, or anything else seen after someone points something out. We know a great many forms and those we don't know can be made by mixing the basic forms we do know. Seems to me anything is anywhere and everywhere under the right light, in the right situation.
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