Just Go With It!

This one advertisement pops up on my timeline on social media, So I decide to just go with it . Now understand if I am Linus, caution is my security blanket.  I never throw caution to the wind?  Absolutely not!  For then you have no control and things just happen........naturally?  

 Anyway I got registered to go to this poetry writing event with a group of people, I don't know.  I was confident in my decision; but as the hour to arrive drew closer, I tried to come up with every excuse in the book not to go ………I couldn't find one. L  So reluctantly I decided to go with it!     Ahh, look the traffic. Damn, I may be late!  Turn around next time we will go for sure.  Nope go with it!  I arrive; only a few people look like me, to leave or to stay. Hmmmm   A woman offers me her seat, I stay.    

I'm drawn to this huge picture; it is a beautifully done depiction of various African American stereotypical images ….. It’s so  powerful!  It speaks to me, particularly the well-dressed black man with a briefcase walking out of jail with a rope around his neck.  He is free to go or is he?    Another brother in what appears to be a zoot suit looking  nothing like brother Malcolm, but immediately that's who I think of…………  life transformation.                                                          

 Snapped back from my own thoughts by the leaders instructions to turn to a page in the handout I do not have, oh well, but then the young Caucasian girl next to me shares hers.   Go with it!   We share not only her handout, but observations about hidden figures in plain sight, lesson.                                                            

Wait, what are we doing now?  A bike ride to Jackson Park to a Japanese garden?  Oh no! I don't do bugs nor do I own a bike. Negative me, Evonne, here’s our chance to escape!
Creative me, Sheewan, I’m hungry feed me!   Go with it!
Negative me, Evonne, Oh well, can’t find parking I'm over this, let’s go! 
Creative me, Sheewan, nagging feed me, creatively we are starving!  Go with it!  
 I find parking, it’s far away L I have on a sundress and gym shoes bugs are going to feast on this brown sugar.   My mind is drawn to the fact that I forgot my switchblade, no weapon.  Oh, wait yes I do.  key's between fingers jab in the throat… I'm good. (But again always cautious) Now I have to cross the street at Cornell and 56th Street; no lights, car speeding it's like an expressway.   
But ya know what?  Little engine that will, I think I can, I know I will… did it! Next? 
Walking through Jackson Park to a Japanese garden……oh my god this place is beautiful! 
No longer worried about the bugs or the fact that I don't have a weapon.
Sheewan is happy creative juices flowing I can't stop writing.  Creative me is happy! 
The group is here.  Stop … look…. Write…. four  different locations Done. 
                                                                                                                                                                        Walking back I'm good, no keys as a weapon needed, breathing easy, get to Cornell, the expressway, feeling like a superhero.  I will the cars to slow down; the lights turn red, in both directions, to my left and my right.  I damn near skipped across the street. Happy thoughts flowing in my head as I come to my car, hey no mosquito bites. 
I start thinking about the sign in the garden; “stay on the path” abstract thinking, out of my head threw caution to the wind………………….. Went with it!!!  Feeling peacefulJ