POST CARDS FROM THE MUSE

Nothing to See

By Nandy Ekle

I watched a movie the other day that gave me some inspiration. A man stood on the road with a little girl next to him.

“What do you see?” he asked her.

“You know, regular stuff.”

“Okay. Now what do you NOT see?”

That line blew my mind. I tried it the next day. I looked at my desk and listed all the things I could see there. I have pictures of my family, an Easy button, a goofy old trophy, telephone and computer.

So then I thought about what I didn’t see on my desk. I started with obvious things like the sun, kitchen sink, dog, and fried chicken. Before long I wasn’t seeing things like a superhero fighting a bad guy to save his girl, or a woman playing a practical joke by convincing the world she has a ghost. Once I wasn’t seeing those things, I also didn’t see the woman loved by the superhero realize how much she also loved him, and how the woman playing the practical joke had to learn a painful lesson.

You should give it a try.

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