January 7, 2009: Wednesday

A customer asked me yesterday if I believed in "an eye for an eye." Emphatically I said "No!" If everyone agreed with this tenet, then the whole world would be blind (Gibran)... and if the whole world is blind, we'd have no need for sunglasses.

Huh, that Erma... such a wuss... Every blind man I no wears me n my frends. I say blind em all!! No sharing our vizun with the world. Mwah- ha-ha-ha!! Gotta go! Ciao bellas!!

January 8, 2009: Thursday

Did you know that sunglasses can be traced back as far as Emperor Nero (AD 60) who watched gladiatorial fights whilst holding up polished green gems to cut the sun's glare? The first actual recorded evidence of someone wearing sunglasses appears in a painting by Tommasso da Modena in 1352. Good morning!

January 9, 2009: Friday

The space between earth and heaven is filled with things that fly. Birds that swoop and glide and feather on the breeze; silver tubes leaving wakes upon the white-blue sky; kites with tails aflutter with bemused children attached and plastic bags and paper torn all dancing of their freedom with the wind. Be wary not to let the flying free debris knock your sunglasses off your face. Good afternoon.

January 10, 2009: Saturday

No prose today: spent the day with my boss!

January 11, 2009: Sunday

Snaking finger tendrils of copper-coloured desert crossed our path this morning. They clawed and undulated their way across the asphalt divide swirling the microcosmic dance of the web of life itself. I raised my glasses and found them to be the everyday colour of the pale dust so prevalent in our valley. I think my sunglasses show me a more spiritual world. Good morning!

January 12, 2009: Monday

I read somewhere once that living vicariously through others is not living at all. I would have to disagree. My sunglasses and I have seen and heard and experienced some amazing drama this week. We couldn't get more drama on a sunny nude beach in South America filled with jealous lovers. Living vicariously through others is like being a grandparent: you get all the joys of visiting with your grandkids but get to give them back before they pee in your bed. Good morning!

January 13, 2009: Tuesday

"The verity of statements firm
Grants passage to this place in turn."
His winged feet beguile my soul
On travel into darkness whole.
We pass into the underworld
For fleeting life has come unfurled.
Remove my frames so as to see
As we pass beneath the worldly tree.
Then fields ablaze, Helios bright-
Replace the shades to stay the light.
"The verity of statements firm,"
Says the keeper of the herm.
Relax, enjoy, no Cerberus pass
No Tartarus chains, no Hades wrath.
"The verity of statements firm
Show honor, virtue, ability to learn.
"Pompaios Hermes then did lie
With grin and sigh and smile wry
Upon the golden grass so sweet
With shades in place all nice and neat.

Erma Zurita,
sent with my iPhone

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