I didn’t sleep that well thinking about my dentist appointment this morning. I was seeing a specialist to determine if he could save a tooth, one that was an essential part of a bridge and the appointment was for 8:15. I typed the location, Sully’s Trail in Bushnell’s Basin, into my iPad and Siri was giving me directions as I walked to the car but once inside she went silent. I pulled over on Seneca Road to troubleshoot the sound problem. The volume was up. I rebooted the map app. And then it dawned on me that the iPad was sending the audio via bluetooth to the car stereo and I had the stereo set to AM radio with the volume turned all the way down. I switched the car stereo to bluetooth, heard Siri’s voice and took off.
Siri was giving directions over a soundtrack that was so spacey I wasn’t even sure it was coming from the car stereo. The display on the dashboard read “Track 5 – Love Flows Over Us in Prismatic Waves.” It took me a bit to figure out what was going on. We had read an article about Jon Hopkin’s new release, “Music for Psychedelic Therapy,” and we thought of our friends, Jeff and Mary Kaye. They recently took a guided ayahuasca trip in Mexico and we were having dinner with them over the weekend so I streamed some of the album from my iPad.
I wasn’t entirely awake, it was raining and the music was as ambient as the sounds around me, the tractor trailer tires whooshing by, the wipers beating back and forth and Siri’s voice telling me to merge left” and “take exit 6.” I was running late and the sea of red taillights near the Can of Worms would ordinarily make me very anxious. Not today. Everything was dreamy.
The dental assistant introduced himself as a surgeon from Egypt. He told me he was taking classes here to complete his certification in order to work in this country. I asked if Salah was from Egypt and he said. “Mohammad Salah, the star Liverpool striker, is definitely from Egypt. Not many people here know it he is” I asked about the procedure to lengthen a crown and he drew a diagram. The doctor came in and studied the situation. He told me the tooth will have to be extracted so I have an appointment with an oral surgeon..
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