The middle aged woman giving out flyers on the sidewalk has bad Parkinson's Disease. As she tries to get passersby to take the black and white advertisement for a new Sushi restaurant, her offering hand trembles badly. I look at her face: a mixture of disappointment and frustration—please take this paper/why won't you take it? She has a large stack of them in her other hand. She's not been very successful at spreading the new sushi word today. Passing by, I slow to take one but her quaking...
Published on October 22, 2009 21:37