_PRIVLINEAGE

Sometimes it is not just the decisions you make that end up changing the course of your life. Some things are, in fact, out of your hands & it is up to you to observe, evaluate, & adapt to seize the moment.

A standard plan of rendezvous delayed by unforeseen circumstances. An audible from taxi travel to the (n)ever reliable subway. A shift in timing that otherwise would have resulted in a quick glance but nothing more. Instead, a solo arrival, a piping hot cup of cawffee & a fifteen minute window to ponder. In my peripheral, some movement. At any time my brethren walks through the door & I lose sight of these other life paths being followed. Strangers who, somehow, someway, have ended up forty floors high on a scaffold clinging to a skyscraper. On the other side of glass, some who were born into an entirely different trajectory of professional number crunching.

Alas, the universe provides. A few seconds to breathe. The moment frozen in time. Roofeeo arrives for his scheduled appearance on Sway In The Morning. I get to chop up with someone I once watched on Mtv. We stroll to Times Square, snap a few, eat at the Seinfeld diner & off to Jersey we go for a studio session with Retch. A day of wins.