Art of Specificity

Signs, signs everywhere signs
Something in the scenery's changing my mind
Signs, signs everywhere signs
Do this, don't do that
Can't you read the signs?

-'solomon's wish',  wise man's tragedy (2000)

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everywhere i look signs are ready to command,
direct, reroute and inform.

some more clearly than others. 

take the above photo, for example. 

is this a command? 
is it a label?
it is a social commentary?

i remember an officer pulling me off
the road for a moving violation.
as he stood outside my window,
ticket pad in hand he asked a most nebulus question,
"did you see that sign back there?"

what sign?  which of the 1,400,000,000
signs within this 1 mile radius are you referring to? 

sheeshhhh.

today, we are inundated with information...
directions, offers and invitations. 

only through our discernment will we
thrive in this Deluge of Data.

and our part?

well, our part is to practice the
Art of Specificity.  Being clear on
what we ask of ourselves and what
we offer to others. 

...and the next time you notice one
of those mis-directing signs? 

giggle and know you know which
rite is write.  right?