Rhapsodies

I follow a lot of skepticism blogs. And when your read a lot of them one of the first words you learn is Paridolia. That is to say what you have when you see shapes in the clouds, faces on Mars or Jesus on toast. If you’re into symbology you can notice all kinds of things not all of them necessarily religious.

This brings me to my point. About a week ago I slammed my shin really badly on… something because I was experimenting with putting a light on my backpack strap while taking my favorite short cut (in daytime) Ravenna Park. It technically worked but it also shone the light right into my eyes so while I could see what was in front of me at a range of twenty feet I couldn’t see anything right in front of me. So I didn’t see how close to the side of the path was until it was too late and I slammed my shin against… Something.

This and a few other things are the reason I’m shopping for a good bike light right now.

My shin was a mess but nowhere as bad as it felt. Anyway I was coming out of the shower today and I happened to look at the scab and I couldn’t help noticing that upside down it looked kind of sort of like Kokopelli!

Unfortunately I don’t think there’s much call for ancient southwestern trickster fertility deities showing up in anything in the general tinfoil hat market… Still it makes for an interesting conversation piece.