kid on the block
26 July 2018 07:25![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skonen_bladesA profound thing happened today.
Sonja and Audrey and I had lunch at Save On Meats and decided to walk back home.
The route took us along Hastings past Main.
About a block before Main, walking through the worst of it, someone started bellowing out "KID ON THE BLOCK! KID ON THE BLOCK!" and the shout was taken up down the strip, tent to tent.
Just a few people yelling it out like town criers.
I didn't stare or jump.
Just kept walking.
I didn't even realize it was in regard to Audrey until the second shout.
Anyone fixing that was still compos mentis put their rigs away or at least turned away from the sidewalk.
A few people even watched their language.
A block later passing more tents, I heard it said by a woman in the midst of a cluster of women in a doorway.
I didn’t look to see what was happening or if anything was happening.
I was profoundly moved.
That they'd still look out for a kid.
That they're still present enough to do that.
That they're still humans.
That they still see something as holy.
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Sonja and Audrey and I had lunch at Save On Meats and decided to walk back home.
The route took us along Hastings past Main.
About a block before Main, walking through the worst of it, someone started bellowing out "KID ON THE BLOCK! KID ON THE BLOCK!" and the shout was taken up down the strip, tent to tent.
Just a few people yelling it out like town criers.
I didn't stare or jump.
Just kept walking.
I didn't even realize it was in regard to Audrey until the second shout.
Anyone fixing that was still compos mentis put their rigs away or at least turned away from the sidewalk.
A few people even watched their language.
A block later passing more tents, I heard it said by a woman in the midst of a cluster of women in a doorway.
I didn’t look to see what was happening or if anything was happening.
I was profoundly moved.
That they'd still look out for a kid.
That they're still present enough to do that.
That they're still humans.
That they still see something as holy.
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