Pizza and Meditation


This is a picture of Robert Paschell, a artist and writer who resides in Yellow Springs. Yellow Springs is one of the remaining bastions of free thought and free expression left in this franchised homogenized world we live in. I was standing in the back of Ha Ha Pizza, waiting for my unique and delicious pizza to be made and was silent witness to a conversation Mr Paschell was having with the manager/owner of the little pizza shop. A short story had been written over dinner, the story gave a history of the owner, a long haired, gilligan's looking fellow of good nature and gentle soul. It was like listening to those times on NPR when they have an author reading one of his or her stories. Only better. It was really a treat to stand there and listen to a story I of course could not relate adequately or give justice to. Two pretty young ladies -the waitress and the cashier/pizza maker with enough earrings to make a Suicide Girl proud and the owner/manager sported wide grins as the story was read. Myself in the background, taking it all in. A real Northern Exposure type moment. I struck up a converation with Robert and complimented him on his storytelling ability. A friendly fellow, he talked with me for a while and gave me the picture you see blended in the picture I took of him with my trusty camera phone. He draws and designs and sells his pictures on tee shirts and sells them on the web. Way cool.