On Being White Light

When I was younger, I had a conversation with a co-worker of mine at the optical shop where I was employed as the receptionist. Gretchen was twenty-three to my nineteen and a philosophy graduate. She was very into her particular ideas on living and the human experience.

On this particular day, Seal’s “Crazy” was playing on the radio as we all hung around the deserted shop waiting for the afternoon’s appointments to arrive. There is a line in the song that goes, “In a sky full of people only so...