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In Favor of Whimsy

July 6th, 2009

I had an interesting friend in high school I was thinking about recently. He was the kind of old friend I hung out with and I’d like to get back in touch with via Facebook, except I can’t. He got a brain tumor and died some years ago.

The thing I was thinking about was how he had the best sense of whimsy of anyone I’ve ever known. You wouldn’t know it by looking at him, or even talking to him a few minutes. It was a hidden, subtle whimsy, a sort of amusement with the world.

Except what made him special was that when the world got a little too boring, he’d weird it up for his own pleasure.

Here is the sort of thing he would do. He would find something small and interesting like a plastic dinosaur, or novelty pen, or a piece of candy, and very carefully, very anonymously, put it into someone’s pocket.

Sometime later, when he was around, or maybe when he wasn’t, they would find the strange odd thing there, with no explanation for how it had arrived there in their pocket. And, generally speaking, he rarely if ever told anyone he was responsible.

He was, in short, a putpocket.

Thinking of you today, Henry. Life is short. Make it a little more whimsical.

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