Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Legend.....

wait for it.


.............-ary.

Legendary.

Right now I'm sitting here in a very non creeper fashion enjoying a little salad at the Crossroads on campus and in front of me is an old man. He is clearly close to 80 years old. A calzone and pasta for lunch. He has a british accent. To every other student he is just an old man. We talk to old people like children....but I know who this old man is.

Norman Bailey is a world-renowned opera singer from Europe. In the 1970's, Bailey was widely famous in the opera community and has graced the stage of most opera houses on the European continent. Think of all that travel, all those experiences that are stored in his brain.

And then I sit here and watch him eat in Rexburg, Idaho. All that knowledge. To most, just an old man eating lunch.

To those who know....treasures upon treasures of knowledge. A opera legend.

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