Street Cookie
The discovery
Let’s start this off with what pushed this blog into script. One of those crazy moments where time slows down, as if to give you opportunity to observe something significant, or something you’re going to make significant. I passed by this cookie on a sidewalk in Buenos Aires, Argentina last year. Cy and I were on our way to a traditional eatery, Ña Serapia, one of those hole-in-the-wall eateries that scrape out delicious food from dimly lit kitchens and soiled pots. The cookie was just sitting there on the street all alone, not looking anything like a cookie at all. Imagine walking down the street and seeing two red eyes staring out at your from the pavement with a wicked smile. I’ve never done drugs but imagine this is the shit you’d see: a concrete demon, the sidewalk smiling at you like, “Awww shit!”.
Here’s what trips me about this cookie, besides how alone and unbothered it was to the crowds passing by: most of it is crushed (it’s cookie dust, really, not a cookie) except for its face! Physicists, engineers, detectives and smarty-pants: tell me how this cookie can be so crushed (look at it!) while its smiling face is intact? Not a crack, look at its cool smile. Why is this cookie still smiling when the rest of it is in shatters?
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Are you sure it was a cookie? From what I’ve heard, there are many other brown substances that are frequently stepped on the sidewalks of Buenos Aires. I admit the happy face is freaking me out a bit:)
Ha, yeah. I haven’t even touched upon the shit-kabobs yet.
I am no physicist but I believe it is the gooey substance (jelly/jam) that might give the “face” it’s lasting smile. Are you sure it wasn’t a sidewalk sculpture, artistic piece?
But why didn’t the cookie face crack like the rest of it? I contemplated whether it was art, and looked around. It was too funny. Maybe I’ll launch a street cookie search. There is certainly more to come.
This cookie reminds me of the gingerbread man in Shrek the movie. One of my favorite animated characters of all time.
On a more serious note this made me think of a section of the book I am reading entitled “Using your Chakras” by Ruth White.In a section of the book she comments on the compulsion to conform. I thought this may apply to our little cookie and other beings in life:
“Are physical characteristics unfair accidents of genetics and birth? Is ‘God’ an unfairly selective Creator? Or do our bodies carry some more refined message and meaning? When we come to believe in karma and evolution through many lifetimes, these vagaries and apparent shifts of fortune no longer need to be seen as ‘unfair’ or as meted out by a judgmental and selective Creator. Existential diversity is central to the laws of cause and effect. In our higher selves we actively choose a pre-incarnational focus towards specific areas of learning experience intended to allow us to redress imbalances from other lifetimes.”
In essence if we look at this cookie as deficient or disabled, it is contradictory to the theories of karma. Perhaps this tough cookie is more than just a mere cookie.
this probably tops the list on theories. HILARIOUS. more to come on Street Cookie!