This a.m. at Dunkin D at Bryn Mawr “L” station. Middle Eastern women who do not smile, indeed are somewhat insulting about it. One had a smile for a handsome, well-dressed, prosperous-looking Middle Eastern gent who did not return it. Plus, coffee was watered! Maybe because I got it free with a coupon. Busy, busy place but courtesy-challenged.

Then to nearby St. Ita church for 8 a.m. mass, Broadway and Catalpa, on way home — walking, btw. Nice group mostly women, as at St. Edmund-Oak Park and elsewhere employing the hand-wave of peace at the proper time, becoming a sea or small lagoon of waving arms and hands, like seaweed on ocean floor or above-water of a pond, in this case reeds waving in the breeze.

Not what fellow Palestinians went out to see when they flocked to see John the Baptist, as Jesus said. Not knocking the wave, just being observant.