daze: (verb) to make unable to think or react properly; stupefy; bewilder
There have been few, if any, "stand-still" moments in my life. Perhaps, I experienced the first just this past week while in Winco. I was getting groceries, buying oranges, mixed nuts, Reese peanut butter cups, bobbing along in my own merry manner. Caught in thought, whizzing down the laundry detergent aisle, nearing the end of regimented plastic Tide bottles, my intuition knew before my senses could perceive defeat and overwhelmedness. In front of me was a man embracing a woman, the woman had a scarf around her head, no eyebrows. She was a chemo patient, cancer had taken her life and emotions and turned them tipsy-topsy. I can't tell you for sure what the hug was about, but I do know that it was a hug of sorrowful solidarity, a hug of mutual exhaustion. When I saw them there, my world stopped spinning, everything frozen in a daze. Stupefied, I just stared.
