A Tramp in Corfu

We are walking across a pedestrian square on a lovely day in Corfu town. There are shops lined up facing the pedestrian path, a path wide enough to have restaurants tables and chairs with plenty of room left over for people to pass each other. At one end is a junction and in the part that tees off the walkway, restaurants keep their commercial bins ready to be filled with the days business waste.

As I look over a man catches my eye, a tall man rummaging in the bins, his left hand holding the black lid up in the air his head and other arm leaning well into the bin.

I stop and stare at this man as I believe something is out of the ordinary, this filthy badly dressed tramp with matted hair has one of the most beautiful, powerful auras I have ever seen, his energy body crackles like sparking electricity, thats when I realise he’s not human.

At that moment he pulls his head out of the large red dumpster and with the black lid still in the air turns and looks directly at me. He stares for a moment and we both realise and on some level acknowledge each other. He looks away from me then directly in front slightly up in the air. The black dumpster lid is carefully put back down and with a brisk turn starts to walk straight for me. I am filled with a calm excitement as he takes purposeful large strides towards me, he is around 30 meters away and covers that distance in no time at all. As he approaches concentrating on his walk as much as anything else, he walks right up to me and with his left shoulder leans down a few inches and gently shoulder barges my left shoulder. It reminded me of a friend who stayed at a Buddhist monastery and was shoulder barged in a similar way by a resident monk, a way to non verbally communicate a message. The tramp recognised our situation and was letting me know in a delightfully playful way. After making contact he turned and walked continuously back past the dumpster, further down the road and then took a left, he disappeared behind the buildings maybe 60meters from where I stood. I never took my eyes off him as I didn’t want to miss a thing, I wanted to take in the whole experience and after he turned, I never saw him again. I knew from the moment his energy crackled he was experiencing planet earth and the people that live on it from an alternative perspective, one where most people would look at him but not see who he was and what he was doing.