Conrad Blog:

Transcendence.

I went to walmart tonight. I bought a rice steamer.

I left walmart and it was cold and windy. My trenchcoat has always given me a sense that I am somehow supernatural, but now I felt stoic too. As a cold burst of wind hit me, I decided not to close up my coat, but to embrace it. Darn it was cold but I breathed it in.
I looked to my left, across the parking lot towards a field over a fence where the wind seemed to be coming from, and suddenly, the world at that moment fell into place. The wind that blew across that field came down from the sky in a great tumuluous churning in the world that I was slowly transversing. I savored the feeling, breathing deeply.
Snot flew out my left nostril. I realized that this is the world that I am king of now, also the same world that will kill me at a point in time unforeseen.
But for a space of about 30 feet, betwen walmart and that nissan suv, I had become a superhero, impervious to any attack of the soul, completely transcendent.

And I got back to Kinney, ate a string cheese stick, typed some garbage into this impersonal machine, represented as magnetic fields in precise locations on a rotating disc in Houston, Texas, and went to bed. Transcendent or not, tomorrow morning at 7:30 is going to hurt.