recognition

Isn't it amazing--tell me how this happens--when your eye catches a glimpse of a person through a window or across the crowd, taking them in all at once, and even if they are the most minimal acquaintance, the friend of a friend who you have hardly spoken to, there in a split second you can place exactly who they are. You don't need to see much: a hairstyle or a half a stride, the color of a coat or a swing of the arms. The tiniest signs give them away.I think of how nice it would be to have this skill of immediate recognition with everything else. To be able to know the truth from a lie, or a poor judgment from a good one. Maybe we do have this ability, but we don't trust it. We don't want to be the person who yells out "hey Susan!" across the room and find out we were wrong.

p.s. more snow this morning, and in the 30s.