“Is it mine?” she asked of no one in particular.

I was waiting for a bus on main street one summer day and a woman turning towards me shielding her eyes from the sun, was obviosly looking for a bus coming down the street.

You could say too, she was amply endowed all over; which is okay. No problem. But resting almost outside her sleeveless t-shirt that had sufficiently lost its neckline that much of her upper endowments were exposed was a piece of jewelry…at least I assumed that’s what it was intended for; nestled there;a gaudy, bejeweled gold cross stretching well down her front. It was a giant object resting between two monstrous hills. Rest assured this woman was not a religious nor cult figure.

So what is one to assume here? She, a private person exhibiting her largesse appointments…or was she displaying a religious symbol in a public place?

Her transportation arrived and she thumped into the bus. Symbols do not always bear up under scrutiny; be its intent religious or otherwise.

When a religious symbol is used too often in the marketplace or even to edify public, private deeds or anticipations…doesn’t it lose its power to represent anything but for the few who put it there?

I support the separation of church and state, but if a symbol is just another cleavage curio, where’s the religious symbolism?

If it rests on one hill or between two, who’s to say what is its respected public signifigance?