Wednesday - The Shoe

[ninanevermore]

As I drove into work this morning, I obsessed over a lost baby shoe.

Half of a $12 pair of baby shoes is not $6, it is $0. The playground at the daycare center is small, much too small for a shoe to get lost on. It has apparently ceased to exist.

If I do not buy another pair of those shoes, the lost shoe will never resurface. Somewhere in another universe, there is a place where baby shoes disappear to - always single, never in pairs.

In quantum physics, they observe particles that appear and disappear, seemingly at random. The thought is that rather than cease to exist momentarily, the particles are popping into a parallel universe and then popping back into our universe.

I believe that certain baby shoes are made entirely of these particles.

Quantum physics is mysterious. I know for certain that the only way to make the particles that compose my son's lost blue shoe with double velcro tabs jump back into this universe is to purchase another pair of baby shoes just like the single shoe that I have left. The moment I make that purchase and discard the receipt, the missing shoe will reappear on the toddler playground at Zion Lutheran Church, in plain sight.

This is the way things have always been.

Comments

[jinxgoddess.livejournal.com]

Sooooo very true =)

[noblwish.livejournal.com]

Borrowing a page from a crazy Charismatic church I once attended, when I lose something that shouldn't be THAT lost, I tell the Cosmos to "uncloak" the thing, lest I call down Righteous Indignation. Works every time. Sometimes, you just gotta tell the universe who's boss.

[jinxgoddess.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'm Hope actually, Amelia is my 15 month old.

I stumbled across her journal and really dug her writing style.

Plus she was voted 'Best Journal Ever!' by anayasmom so I had to see what was up =)

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

I don't want to say that the people in the churches you grew up in scare me, but the truth is that, well, the people in the churches that you grew up in kind of scare me.

More than a bit.

My dear cousin, the world you live in is so much more surreal than anything I can create in a web log.

I am concerned that the effects of Charismatic Christian Mysticism will be somewhat watered down on the grounds of a Lutheran Church, where the most only thing they get even close to charismatic about is a really good coffee cake recipe.

[noblwish.livejournal.com]

Hey, there's a lot to get charismatic about when you're talking good coffee cake! Now, where did I see that Cranberry Coffee Cake recipe?

[noblwish.livejournal.com]

Oh, and yeah... they scared me, too! That's why I go Non-Dom now. I like to think of it as Libertarian Christianity.