Day 96 - Admission of Omission

My brother and I chatted about the blogging experience during my visit in LA. In true writer form, he insists that it be all-telling, leaving nothing out. More than just a log of exercise, it should include my weird insights along this journey. So here's one I included, and then omitted due to embarrassment:

Along with the weird guy in the tinted window sedan, we have a new visitor to our workout. The first time we noticed him was one of our rainy days last week, so he was maybe 200 feet away. This individual rolls up in a minivan at 6:15am, hops out, and proceeds to march around under one of the picnic shelters chanting to himself with a blanket over his head. From that distance, this looked like odd behavior. He seemed to be watching us. I was a little sketched.

Alas, two days later we were able to work out in our normal spot on the road, much closer to this individual's pacing shelter. It was then that I realized that this man was not potentially nuts and weird, but rather praying. See, the Seward Park neighborhood has an enclave of Orthodox Jews, and the blanket - not a blanket at all, but a prayer shawl, or tallit.

I was a little mortified at my initial reaction. Though the combination of my perception of the facts and my lack of coffee made my deduction seem reasonable, my cultural insensitivity embarrassed me enough to not even report my error. But now I'm reporting it. Please pardon me.