Amelie Moments

"Grandma, you have such big eyes."
"Better to see you my dear."

They are like the camera lens, scoping out the world, zooming in on the details that are so minute, reveling in the stolen moments when one doesn't know that he/she is being watched.

I was walking down Market one day, and some guy just hanging on the corner says:
"Dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmnnn, you have BIG eyes. Why don't you shut them a little...like this [he squints a little]." I laughed, but it was kinda an annoyed sort of laughter.

I like being the passenger in the car; I get to watch people. I love those moments when they notice me watching them and they turn to watch me and we connect/we recognize each other. I told Matt that as we were driving to Tahoe this moment. He always asks "What don't I know about you?" He didn't know that. It's like an Amelie moment. "Andrea likes to watch people as they drive their cars and really likes it when they notice and turn to see her watching them. She loves to catch someone in a moment of complete unselfconsciousness - belting out the words of a song with passion or picking their noses."

It's the stolen moments that truly show our humanity; when no one is watching, we watch them cry at commercials, scowl at the homeless, or scratch their asses.