Accidents 

Monday, July 1, 2019, 05:36 PM – Poetry and Writing

The other night at the Celebration of Life of my friend Marcel, I fainted, hit my head and knocked myself out. He would have loved that I left his party on a stretcher. Marcel the marine engineer who spent a good part of his career looking at risk and safety. Then we went to the Musee des Beaux Artes (Quebec city) and saw a wonderful exhibit of Miro. He was quoted as saying that he liked, in his art, to “provoke accidents.” I loved this and have been contemplating what makes an accident. Something, not disastrous, that wasn’t supposed to happen but alters the path.