I figure if the fountain is located in University Park then it must be a “fountain of knowledge”? OK…well, maybe that’s a stretch for literary purposes. But then again…I sat within eyesight of this fountain recently on a park bench for only about 10 minutes…and learned some things.
While I was there, I talked with a boy of about 12 who was waiting for his mother. He explained that his Mom was kind of late and was at a job interview someplace for a second time. She had been out of work for a while. He was curious about me taking photos…so I told him what I was doing…showed him my camera.  And I talked briefly with a older man with dreadlocks and an old coat and trousers who wanted to know what time it was…and then told me a story of how he was looking for a place to live and couldn’t find one. That one really made me think. A minute or two later, a well dressed man, young executive type, talking on a cell phone walked through and then stopped, close enough that I could hear one side of his phone conversation. He was trying to put a deal together that sounded like it was going south in a hurry. “I’ve been there before” I thought. And all the while the pigeons were bobbing, strutting, hunting and competing for any stray crumbs and morsels that someone may have left behind.
It just struck me that everyone is trying to live and take care of the basics, one way or another. Me, you, everyone… even pigeons. Not that I didn’t know that already. But the park was showing me short glimpses of others doing the same dance. Maybe the dance steps were a little different with each one but the dance was the same. The fountain of knowledge?…well…on this day it was for me anyway.
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Here’s a small taste of the action at the
fountain at University Park downtown.
                (Video-YouTube)
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