Thursday, April 06, 2006

The King Lives


I went to a training day with Margaret Wheatley quite recently (author of Leadership and the new science and other excellent books). The best part about the day was all the pictures she showed on the screen. She had captured some interesting sights and scenes that helped her to tell her stories.
I decided that day to bring my camera with me everywhere I go.
Today I was happy to be packin' the little sony. I arrived at the Bloor/ Yonge subway station, the doors opened and some wonderful Evis (not to be mistaken with Elvish) tunes tickled my earbuds. I am a closet Elvis fanatic and still choose to believe that he runs a chip shop somewhere in the deep south.
When I turned the corner, I saw the Silver Elvis in true glimmerman fashion. He stood on his box which appeared like one of the old puppet toys where you could push up the bottom of the platform and the doll would go limp. I wasn't tempted to push on his platform to see if he went limp but I dove into my bag for the camera like an american diving for a gun. I snapped a few getting into a graceland frenzy.

I put the camera back in its holster and walked over to throw a few pennies in his plate. Then came the surprise. He didn't have one. I looked all around to see where to put the money and he smiled. I listened to the music once more only to here the words, "now and then, there's a fool such as I".

So here is what I am thinking as I type this up on my blackberry on the subway:

Learn to carry a camera because you tend to notice more
Do something silly that you love every so often

Mark Dowds

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