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A CROSS TO BEAR

Booker and I rounded a corner at Palm Canyon Drive tonight and there, across the street, was this guy walking along in a brown outfit with what looked like a pole over his shoulder.

He was moving along briskly. As he got closer, I realized that the pole was a cross and the brown outfit was a monks habit. Two layers. He had a thing on his head that looked like it might be a crown of thorns.

The actual image is beginning to merge with other images like this that I have read about or seen pictures of.

I have never seen a guy dragging a cross along in the street.

He rounded a corner and he was gone.

The cross didn't look that heavy although it was certainly 6x6 or bigger timbers and it was long so he did have to drag it. I guess he could have shouldered it but it would have wobbled.

I didn't notice if he was barefoot. A lot of penitents are barefoot. Especially if there are a lot of rough stones. But this was on the sidewalk.

This isn't a very good picture as there was no hood and it was brown not black and the cross was more.......well never mind.

There is no doubt that Palm Springs is a hell hole and den of iniquity but not in our neighborhood.

Maybe he was starting out with sin-lite. Or just going home after a hard day of hauling his cross behind him.

It does give a new meaning to the phrase "doing drag".

What is this kind of thing all about anyway? Where did we go wrong?

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