Doorknobs and
Broomsticks
My favorite television show as a child was “Bewitched.”
The artist Stevo painted a picture in
the style of Andy Warhol of Endora,
Elizabeth Montgomery’s mother on the show. I had to have it for my art
collection. Just looking at the painting makes me smile. My favorite character
on the show, though, was Aunt Clara. She collected doorknobs. You have to love
an old woman who collects something so odd and ornate.
In the 80s, every morning in Pittsburgh, my sister Cindy
rode a bus to college. One day after a hard day at school, she boarded to find
a busload of undesirables. Near the back, though, was an older woman who looked
quite tame, kind of like Aunt Clara.
Cindy headed toward the old woman and took a seat beside
her. The lady clutched a large brown grocery bag in her right hand. She quickly
put it on the window side of the seat when Cindy sat down.
If you’ve never ridden a city bus or subway, you may not
understand the kinds of aromas you might expect from public transportation. In
any given day, especially in the summer months, you could smell anything from
an over-perfumed transsexual to defecation to cuminlike body odor. Needless to
say, this bus had its share of aromas.
Cindy cast a friendly smile at the little lady. To her
disbelief, the woman began to chatter on about everything from her childhood to
the piéce de resistance, what was in
the brown bag. She told Cindy that it was her one-of-a-kind collection.
Cindy, of course, asked if she could see it, wondering
what kind of collection a city woman would dare to carry around with her on a
bus. The woman tentatively opened the bag and let Cindy gaze in.
My sister says she saw and smelled green and gray, furry
mold and what looked like old soured cream in an array of various dark colors
splashed like a child’s doodling on the sides of the bag. With hesitancy, Cindy
asked, “What… exactly is it?”
The woman closed the bag and clutched it again. “Pudding.
I’ve been collecting it for three years now.”
My sister got out at the next stop to vomit.
Halloween is this week. This holiday can scare you with
the insanity of normal life, lift your spirits with fantasy and fun costumes,
and give you reason to party like an animal. Which ever direction you intend to
go, I hope your broomstick is ready and you won’t ride it under the influence.
And, if you walk door to door with your children, I pray that whatever you
collect in your Halloween bags is safe for consuming and definitely not old
pudding.
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Go to Week 2 of the “Year to CLEAR Challenge”
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A
Year to CLEAR Challenge:
(Please Know: You Can Join Us At Any Point in the Year
Challenge.)
The masses search outward for things that qualify them as a
person, but I always go inward for that which quantifies me for greatness. At
twenty-five I preached on street corners in NYC as an in-the-closet Pentecostal
minister. One day I heard a still small voice say, ‘God cannot be contained in a
book or a law or even in a religion. Dig deeper, reach further to find me, and
you will find your authentic Self.’”
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a new challenge or thought to provoke conversation, growth, and group
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