Years ago I read this book, the name escapes me. The book was about how everyday we go through our basic routines and never really see the daily happenings right before us. I began to really look when I drove to work. I noticed the birds on the telephone wire, the squirrels scampering to avoid getting hit by cars. Nature in particular was my interest. But then I began to see and read others things that most skimmed over as they went through the doldrums of every day living.
Today I read that Eliot Spritzer used to meet his call girl at The Mayflower Hotel. I laughed my head off. You see that is where we all use to stay in New York City when I was a book publishers representative. I wondered if this was The Mayflower Hotel they were referring to you see as my roommate, Angie, another one of the reps from North Carolina and I use to see some really weird things go down at The Mayflower. At the time I was thinking, this just must be the way it is in New York.
Jack Hanna always stayed there around the same time as we did in the spring as he was always booked to go on the Johnny Carson late night show. Once the room across the hall was broke into by the managers as we watched from the peep hole. All we viewed when they got inside was an empty room and a huge bouquet of roses. Another time one of the rooms was crisscrossed with yellow tape declaring crime scene. Our imaginations went wild.
So I notice things most people don't like did you know a beauty shop gets broke into or driven into on a daily basis. I have this thing called Google Alert and you can plug in words that are your topic of interest. For me beauty shop is one of them. Not a day goes by I hear of a beauty shop robbed at gun point or someone has driven accidently into the shop. What are the odds!
I also notice the side line characters in films. You know, like Steven Buscemi. He played the drunken brother of Adam Sandlin in The Wedding Singer. I love that guy. Or the girl who tried to shoot the mockingbird in the Jennifer Aniston/Matthew McConaughy film "Failure to Launch" who also starred in "Tin Man", Zoey Deschanel. I find these actors and actresses the most interesting.
So as I go through my day to day dealings, I notice the little things. Things that in the big picture may not seem important but are. Spring has sprung in East Texas so may I suggest that for those of you reading this column really look out today. Look at everything and then report on what you find. I once felt a presence running beside my car as I was driving to work one day. I could have been busy and not looked, but I did. Running beside my car was a big black lab and a big black pig. I am not making this up. They looked like buddies and they were having some fun!
With the release of "Horton Hears a Who", the book written by Dr. Seuss, we too could find a whole new world. I look forward to seeing what I will find today. I may just chuckle to myself over the whole deal, like at The Mayflower Hotel or I may ponder the wonder. Once my three year old nephew riding in the carseat with his mom hollared as he pointed at the sky, "Look mom, there's God!"
Have a blessed spring and be ready for some new awakenings and surprises. I would love to hear what you find!
Tiara wearing and Book sharing,
Kathy L. Patrick
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs
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