In an aquarium far, far away…………..

Sometimes you’re sitting in your favorite chair drinking low-grade Sterno, staring off into the distance and you’re suddenly transported to another place, in another time, where things are different yet slightly familiar, and you find yourself saying “That mayo smelled funny and that shrimp and cabbage roll has been in the fridge since Christmas.” and you check real quick to see if you still have a pulse.

You look around in the inky blackness for anything that resembles your normal life. Then you remember. Sterno, shrimp and cabbage, and you give a little sigh of relief because you know you paid the electric bill. This must be something else then.

Suddenly off in the distance you see light and colors and movement and you try to call out but there is no sound. When you think about it you’re kind of glad as you don’t know what it eats. As it gets closer and it’s form takes shape, it looks like something Edison and Carl Sagan would have invented if they’d done that acid everyone else in the lab was doing. It pulses and flexes its transparent outer shell, moving through space in a series of gentle motions that propel it forward much faster and farther than looks possible.

Where is it going ? Does it has a purpose? Are you destined to follow it through space for eternity? Does this post have an ending? When suddenly you hear a loud ringing and you realize it’s your phone. The blackness fades away and you pickup and it’s your buddy saying “hey, come on down I’ve got some left over Chinese take out we need to finish before it goes bad.” You answer “OK, sure, you got any Sterno?’ It’s good to be home.

Note: image is a Comb Jellyfish taken at an aquarium near you. I don’t know what the pink thing is up in the upper right corner. A Galaxy maybe.