Describe a random encounter with a stranger that stuck out positively to you.
Right now, I’m staring at a painting of two roosters. I stare and laugh. It’s colorful and nice. It’s in my living room now. Whereas before, it was in the kitchen. I’ve been moving things around as I need many new begonnings as this year has been troubled and fraught with many pain points.
I’m laughing at the artwork not because it is funny but because of the story behind it. I was in Cuba over a decade ago. I went with the American Public Health Association to gain a better understanding of the culture, norms, and healthcare infrastructure. While there, I got to meet many locals, including a sexologist artist.
He had a Ph.D. in psychology and a Masters in Sexology. However, he was also an artist who made the majority of his income through his artwork. I saw his work on the sidewalk but didn’t see him at first. As I glanced at all his work, he slowly approached from behind some bushes. Well, maybe cars. Bushes fit this story better, though. He came enthusiastically to me and told me his whole life story. As a result I felt the need to buy some of his stuff.
However, as I went to pay him, he quickly went back to the bushes. I was to pay him in darkness. He couldn’t be seen selling his work. I didn’t ask why. But I will never forget my time in the bushes buying art from a stranger.
Categories: art, Culture, Psychology, society, Travel
psychologistmimi 
Cuba has some interesting politics.
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Certainly does
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Buying High Art From A PHD Sexologist
In The Bushes of Cuba Wow That Sounds
Dear Miriam Indeed Like An Interesting Interaction
With A Stranger Oh Dear Lord From Public Dancing
9 Years and 7 Months Now Almost 8 For 18,153 Miles
God Yes i Surely Have
Stories of Interesting
Interactions With
‘Strangers’ That
i’ve Recorded in
my EPiC LonG Form
Poem of Each and Ever
Day oF A LiFE of me for
All Those 11.6 MiLLioN
Words In Those Dates too
One of the Ones That Almost
Brought A Tear to my Eye (She Had A Few
Relating Her Story About Dance) is When
A Young Woman Said She and Her FRiEnDS
Were Having Tough Years at School And Little
Did i Know Then of Course She Said Taking the Voyeur
Videos of me Dancing In Public Helped Them Dancing to
It After School Not to Take Expectations From Others Too
Seriously Indeed
As True One Will
Break Out in A Free
Dance And Break Frowny
Faces into Mr. Blue Skies With Sunshine More God Yes
So Many Other Memories Like When the Door Installers
During Covid From the Lowe’s Contract Team Said Years
Ago in 2014 when they were in Middle School They Dressed up
Like me With Colorful T-Shirts, Shorts, and Shades to Trick or Treat
For Halloween
So Many Stories
So Many Stories of
Interactions With Strangers
And 6 Years Spent at the Biggest
Metro Dance Hall Before Covid-19
Shut-it Down Two ‘Strange Young Women’
Approached me With A Kind of Dance Hehe
They Never Did in the 80’s Asking me for my
Number As i Whipped Out my Driver’s License
And Showed Them the 6.6.60 On it on March 12, 2020
The Day the Pandemic Shut the Dance Hall Down as Even
Christmas Eve And Day Couldn’t Do It Before i Also Showed
Them my Wife in A Bikini And It’s True All That Counts is i Brought
SMiles to Their
Faces That Last
Practically as Long
As Servers Still Serve That
Night of Smiles And Over 2000
Other Photos With Strangers No
Longer Strangers As Humans Commune
With An Ecstatic Joy of Dance Frolicking Free Again
OBTW Happy Earth Day Coming as Usual i Will Be
Celebrating With Strangers Dancing Everywhere i Go
And True in
Words of
Song
in Poetry too…
Honestly i’ve Never
Really Met a Stranger
i Guess That is Part
of my Condition From
Birth Perhaps Just Another
Autistic Splinter Skill of Course…
Hehe Other Than Being A Bit Wordy Now at least..:)
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