Waterfall for Chicago in a Parallel Universe

It's been an unfortunate rough couple of days as I went bicycling after work and, when the temperature dropped 20 degrees and it started sleeting, I missed a crack in the street (There are a lot of potholes and uneven cracks in Chicago streets) and my tire was caught in a crack and I fell really hard. The good news is, I am not going to need stitches and, despite my pain, swelling and large gash on my thigh, I am still making the best of it. Healing will be slow but I likely won't even remember the moment of the fall or these couple of weeks of my life in my dying moments. (I hope not!)

Anyway, I am not one to lay in bed all day when I'm healing so I went to the Art Institute of Chicago yesterday to see Senju's Waterfall for Chicago, which is both very calming and creative. I haven't been to art galleries as much in the past two years but our numbers are a bit lower now. Unfortunately, our mayor has also lifted the mask mandate so I don't feel as safe. About half of the people were wearing their masks yesterday. I was double masked like usual. I'd rather risk a little discomfort than get sick personally.

I was just thinking that in a parallel universe, maybe I wouldn't have hit the crack in the street in the first place or maybe there's another universe without Coronavirus or bicycles or streets. Or maybe I'm not even alive in another parallel universe. The alternate title of this photograph is "Ghosts are Real" which, incidentally, I think would make another great epitaph.

www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9824/senju-s-waterfalls-for-chi...

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Taken on: March 5, 2022

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