Today at the Lounge I was speaking with another regular, Troy, when he asked me if I could find any television shows of Samurai sword fighters on my Apple MacBook. I said, "Lemme see what I can do." I went on YouTube and typed in blah blah blah and a phalanx of Samurai videos placed themselves magically at the fore on screen. Well, Troy was nearly rapt in the Japanese dramas. After awhile, my battery began to wear down and the laptop entertainment yielded to stories. A slew of references to "Green Beret's" or the U.S. Army's Special Forces was especially interesting to me since my father served with this elite group in Vietnam. Troy told me that Green Berets were superior killers than Ninjas! That they drop into a territory at night with "nothing but a knife in their teeth and a length of piano wire" and kill everybody. Apparently only a couple of them against a vastly greater force. He told me these things, among others, with a measure of wonder and amazement in his eyes that softened my heart and made me feel young. It was magical for a moment to me, even though the information was apocryphal at best. In the magic of the moment, the timeless, span-less event that stretches beyond place and time I listened honestly to a story that sub-ceded truth or fiction. Thanks for that bit Troy...