The Strangest Thing Happened The Other Day...

Here you'll find my attempt at a post with the aforementioned title, as suggested by Ben via our post title trade! Read more about the initiative, or contact me if you'd also like to trade!

I'll admit this stumped me for a solid while. Though, as I've learned undertaking writing challenges of all kinds, there's nothing like constraints to inspire creativity!

This is perhaps not following the entire spirit of the prompt, but after receiving a post title trade from Adam, entitled 'Consciousness Is The Most Expensive Accident', thoughts along those lines have been skittering around in my head lately! So to that end, here's a list of things noticed:

• While doing I did yoga early one morning, a pigeon arrived and sat on the balcony, preening its feathers in the sun. Perhaps it had wanted to join me.
• Noticing a tiny painting of a delightfully-strange lizard propped up in someone's car dash and completely failing to notice the dog wearing a pink bandana sitting in the front seat just behind.
• A sticker on someone's car back window, turning their windscreen wiper into a cat's tail.
• Finding all manner of interesting paper detritus on the ground for collaging and zine-making.
• Realizing there's an entire art form in typographic flourishes. They add so much to a typeface!
• A person wearing what looked like a faux fur jacket, only for the back to be denim, bejeweled with a handmade sequined heart with cartoon eyes.
• Buds slowly appearing on a formerly-lifeless tree as spring begins.
• How English, while it often doesn't make sense, surprises you some times with aptly chosen words like 'breakfast' (break the fast) and 'afternoon' (literally after noon!)
• The more I read, the less I know, yet somehow also see how everything is connected.
• How the sunset is spectacular in just its existence. It'll never appear this way again.
• Examining the fabric of everyday items like curtains and blankets to discover an intricate miniature world of textures and patterns.
• How deft painters are in manipulating brushstrokes to produce coherent scenes.

If you're familiar with the concept of negative bias, then if the regular size is a tugboat, mine seems to be a container ship! My hyper-propensity for detail can be a curse, but perhaps I can reframe it.

Now go read Ben's post, with the title: sandwich questionnaire.