My buddy OKC,
I love you.

I've got an imagination. I'm sort of proud of it.

When I see the downtown/bricktown/tunnels of OKC, I feel as though my lack of imagination is stunning.

As in, I am stunned into immobility by my inability to imagine a place like you.

You are like so many humans I know, injured and sore and suffering from a hurt from long ago.

In modern medicine we have an idea of phantom pain - the source of your injury is gone...the cut has healed, the tear repaired, mended.

And yet, the memory of it is still there and we can't tell past from present for fear of future, so we are stuck living in this painful past.

But if you were only suffering, I would feel for you, but I would not love you as I do...
You, OKC are fucking HUGE.  All your sidewalks are build for women and men 10 feet tall and 3 feet wide! You have fun underground tunnels with seemingly no longer any purpose at all, except to provide a sheltered path under the streets.

You have money OKC, that's pretty obvious.

Your streets are clean. Your parks are capable of taking breath away. You have public art, gosh how I love you for your public art.

Oklahoma City, I've only visited with you once - and I'm not ashamed to admit that I visit a lot of places only once, because you are different.

You've found a spot in my heart.  You are unique and when it comes to cities, uniqueness is rare.

Growing up where I did, I had a certain sense of scale that humans live on and in...from the very ruralist cabin, to the tallest of buildings in the biggest of cities, but it never occurred to me that they could make the streets wider.

That they could pick up the trash before it overflowed.

That they could somehow hide the poverty that must invariably exist - where do they hide their poor and hungry and cold and dirty?

I don't know if I'd want more cities like you, because it is your differences that make you so stunning.

It's likely that if I ever get time to spend more time with you, that I might fall out of love with you.

This is most certainly infatuation with an unknown, you are the space alien of cities.
Thank you for that.

Thank you for showing me SCALE. More than anything at all OKC is about SCALE.