Freak du Jour

I met this guy at the market. He made it clear to me that he was a Christian. I've always felt a bit like a freak magnet. Total strangers wanting to tell me their strange stories. I try and look interested and nod politely. At the end of his rant, he asked me innocently. . . , "Have you always been this shallow?" I didn't really know what to say, so I nodded and simply said, "Yes, I have" He then went on to tell me that I needed to find something in my life more important than myself. I said, "I understand".



At one point during the conversation, he took out an old deck of cards, weathered and beat up, just like him. I looked at the cards and and thought, like Jamie Schoolcraft did when he saw my coins. . . . . that's love.