“Known and Unknown”

by Dr. Larry Morris

Last Fall I was in the mountains outside of Santa Fe seeing the aspens bursting with flame colors and I wasn't sure which road to take to get back into town. I stopped and asked a stranger for directions. He took off his sunglasses and I took off my sunglasses and it turned out that he was an old friend of mine from Albuquerque. Without our sunglasses, even in the middle of nowhere, we recognized each other instantly. It's always a joy to realize that a stranger is really a friend.

In our life sometimes we mistake the familiar for the unknown. It's helpful to take off our dark glasses for better seeing.