National Convience Store Day

July 11 or 7/11 National Convience Store Day
The Meaning of Meaning?
A day dedicated to respecting the ease of 24 hour shopping.
A beer, soda, water, laundry soap at 3 am, a Slurpee, Abu from the Simpson’s.
An end to Ma&Pa stores, or their savior?
Convenient, an object of joy.
Convience a verb of effortlessness.

Certainly not Alice Restaurant, because you can’t get anything you want,
but you can get an apple, an orange, banana, a packet of Energy vitamins,
the News, briquettes, baggies, huggies, a man with a gun, the aroma of coffee,
cigarettes by the millions.

Amid rotating hot dogs emanating the aura of service indifference.
I am reminded of Gods’ last words to mankind, written in mile high letters,
“Sorry for the Inconvience.”
-A message from one of my bibles,
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which gave such gems of wisdom as
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
“The importance of knowing where one’s towel is.”
“See first, think later.”
And the Guides entry about Earth,
“Mostly harmless.”

My pondering of Life, the Universe, and Everything
leads to the real assets of humanity, our will and our attention.
How convenient to have tools of power, enlivenment, stimulation, pleasure,
awakening the miracle of being alive 24/7.
Namaste Gary