It had two experiences that were opposites. One was delicious, the other was sour. One was easy, the other was hard. One was fulfilling and the other was frustrating. One was natural and one was technology. One was positive and the other was negative.

The positive experience involved buying, cutting and eating a watermelon. In my shopping for delicious watermelons I noticed ones sold by a company called Bea in Alabama were consistently the best. Yesterday shopping I found a good looking Bea watermelon on sale. Today I cut it up, enjoying it as I cut it up. Tonight for dinner we had some, and it remains in the refrigerator as a delicious, juicy, cool snack.

I needed a piece of this sweet watermelon tonight after the second and negative experience. This experience started off as a simple task, downloading some New Orleans Funeral music for our Breaking the Silence Freedom March tomorrow at Bastille Days. This simple task turned into a technological nightmare. Broken CD players, scratched CD’s, right and wrong format of CD, error messages on the computer and everything that could go wrong made the experience a frustrating one. I still do not feel comfortable with the CD and will probably need to work on it tomorrow.

The positive experience was natural — purchasing and enjoying a good watermelon. The negative experience was technology at its worst, frustrating and complicated. I will take the natural experience over the technological experience any time.

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