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Hey! A new arrival on the shores of Bloghopencia.

So, we got an email yesterday (or, maybe it was today) from Jenne and C.E. inviting us to join in on a bloghop they were inspired to start. ‘Inspired’ is, imo, not hyperbolistic.

One of our hosts is crazy-lyrical in her prose and the other… let’s just say, ‘benignly-anarchistic. (lol)

The rules? A photo and a 250 word limit.

It’s fun and you couldn’t ask for better company. Please do not allow our being invited to affect your decision to join in. (Hey, like no one has ever failed to vet a mailing list and lived to regret it.)

Photo prompt:

The hissing came first.

His awareness of the sound was more threshold than renewed capacity. It was this hissing, and it’s near-but-undefined tone, that focused the world. Proximity being to self-awareness as breath is to life, so the sound transformed, quite without participation of the man, seeing into looking.

The rest of the man’s senses cascaded from this shift. While still heir to many additional ways to relate himself to the world around him, to look at his surroundings created a perspective that was uniquely his, rather than merely a characteristic of his surroundings; he was now himself.

Self-awareness, like the earth to a fertile seed, once stable, allowed the rest of his senses to come alive. The man began to remember everything other than the sequence of events that lead to half-sitting on asphalt, a warm wetness defining his skin. Moving eyes rather than head, he took an inventory of the objects, still without names or context, in his surroundings.

Twisted metal and spinning circles captured his first attentions, but were far too abstract to convey useful information. Light, as has arguably been the case since Genesis, did, however, take claim on his attention.

Resting on the same level as the man sat, like a fundamentalist preacher descending from his pulpit into the congregation, the traffic light claimed dominion over the man’s day for whatever remained of it.

The simplest of instructions manifested in primary colors: stop, reflect upon your place in the world and proceed.

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Just to make things simple… easier, below are the links to the inaugural stories from our hosts.

Jenne: ‘Who Knows Best?

C.E. (hey, you’re the adventurous type, right?) ‘Crossroads‘

Doug Jacquier: ‘WWWally’s everywhere‘

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