thoughtful thursday

after arriving at my chicago destination yesterday early afternoon, i decided a walk on a lovely spring day was just what was needed to relax from the journey.  out of the neighborhood to the nearest busy street i walked along.  at a major intersection, i found myself amid lots of persons out for a walk on a lovely spring day just as i was.  and, while waiting for the light to change so i could cross the street, i examined all the stores in the four blocks that bound the intersection of the street.  what i found, in both building and human, was that they seemed to be from everywhere all over the world.  as with new york city, such an environment is a living united nations; not just an idea or a building or an organization but actual life and all of us living it together.  as much as the lovely spring day warmed and renewed me, so did finding variety in life that actually finds us all so similar there are no true differences.