He was aware there were numerous wonders of this world including the unexplained

creations of humankind that showed the wonder of our ingenuity. There are huge
heads on Easter Island. There are the Egyptian pyramids. There’s Stonehenge. But he
now stood in front of a newly discovered monument that simply didn't make any sense
and he wondered how he was ever going to be able to explain it.
They argue. While the argument seems to be different the truth is it's always the
same. Yes, the topic may be different or the circumstances, but when all said and
done, it all came back to the same thing. They both knew it, but neither has the
courage or strength to address the underlying issue. So they continue to argue.
The chair sat in the corner where it had been for over 25 years. The only
difference was there was someone actually sitting in it. How long had it been since
someone had done that? Ten years or more he imagined. Yet there was no denying the
presence in the chair now.
The leather jacked showed the scars of being his favorite for years. It wore those
scars with pride, feeling that they enhanced his presence rather than diminishing
it. The scars gave it character and had not overwhelmed to the point that it had
become ratty. The jacket was in its prime and it knew it.
It was a concerning development that he couldn't get out of his mind. He'd had many
friends throughout his early years and had fond memories of playing with them, but
he couldn't understand how it had all stopped. There was some point as he grew up
that he played with each of his friends for the very last time, and he had no idea
that it would be the last.
She's asked the question so many times that she barely listened to the answers
anymore. The answers were always the same. Well, not exactly the same, but the same
in a general sense. A more accurate description was the answers never surprised
her. So, she asked for the 10,000th time, "What's your favorite animal?" But this
time was different. When she heard the young boy's answer, she wondered if she had
heard him correctly.
He was an expert but not in a discipline that anyone could fully appreciate. He
knew how to hold the cone just right so that the soft server ice-cream fell into it
at the precise angle to form a perfect cone each and every time. It had taken years
to perfect and he could now do it without even putting any thought behind it.
Nobody seemed to fully understand the beauty of this accomplishment except for the
new worker who watched in amazement.
The words hadn't flowed from his fingers for the past few weeks. He never imagined
he'd find himself with writer's block, but here he sat with a blank screen in front
of him. That blank screen taunting him day after day had started to play with his
mind. He didn't understand why he couldn't even type a single word, just one to
begin the process and build from there. And yet, he already knew that the eight
hours he was prepared to sit in front of his computer today would end with the
screen remaining blank.
He had three simple rules by which he lived. The first was to never eat blue food.
There was nothing in nature that was edible that was blue. People often asked about
blueberries, but everyone knows those are actually purple. He understood it was one
of the stranger rules to live by, but it had served him well thus far in the 50+
years of his life.