Forrest Gump and I

Do you remember the last scene? His son had left on Miss Dorothy's bus, Forrest promised "I'll be here when you get back." He sat on a crosscut stump beside the mailboxes. Looking down and to the left his expression shifted into what I perceive as 'Gump Neutral.' When first I saw it, in 1995, I realized it is an expression to which I am prone. The mind whirs and busily buzzes but the transmission is contentedly disengaged. A man afloat like a feather on a breeze, his path influenced by action and by the currents of his time.