This is a great week – I was able to wander out at lunchtime everyday for four straight days…
I work in Hong Kong. If you are in Hong Kong right now, congratulations – this is the best time of the year to be in town. It’s bright and sunny everyday. The air is crispy and clean, and it’s VERY dry with a poetic touch of breeze. In short, it’s just perfect.
I wandered out, with no particular place to go and with nothing to do, apart from buying some food for lunch, somewhere. I usually go out at 11:00am, when the streets are deliciously empty. I walked down the street and asked myself to focus, to take on the same kind of focus that comes to me automatically when I take photos.
I stopped thinking.
I could feel the sunshine. I could smell the cool air. I saw the faces around me, people who were hurrying to go somewhere, absorbed in their own worlds and running their own agendas, people who were there but not REALLY there. I could hear – be it the cars and the usual city noise, but I could also the trees, the leaves and the occasional bits of conversations of passerby’s on their cell phones.
I could see.
I saw that old lady at the newspaper stand, she’s got a light jacket on now. I could see the people at the sandwich shop, doing last minute preparations for the lunchtime rush. I could see the man pushing a trolley full of printer paper down the street, he’s got a Santa cap on. Now here’s a jolly soul …
Wander Geek 