Pool as a safety blanket / fountain of youth

[pt109]

In the 90s, I became acquainted with a young woman ( I was the same age as her mother
so the relationship was platonic)...she was a talented person...had sang lead in a rock band
...wrote for a few mags....some were comedy based. She became infatuated with billiards.
She would call me often to play snooker or pool...I would take her to different rooms.

So one day we walked into a room with a carom table...not being used.
I asked her “What do you see?”
She said “A table covered in cloth with no pockets..what else is there to see.”
I told her “I see a small universe...a white ball hitting lots of rails and finally finding a
third ball with a kiss...and avoiding unintended collisions on the way...you have to draw
sometimes with a little extra running english to miss a kiss with the first ball.....
...it ‘s like a miniature solar system where the orbs know their place...sometimes.”

She said “That’s why I have the need to call you...you’re seeing things I can’t see.”

A sage once said “Study a dewdrop and you’ll understand the universe.”
...billiards is my dewdrop

 

[Michael Andros]

In the 90s, I became acquainted with a young woman ( I was the same age as her mother
so the relationship was platonic)...she was a talented person...had sang lead in a rock band
...wrote for a few mags....some were comedy based. She became infatuated with billiards.
She would call me often to play snooker or pool...I would take her to different rooms.

So one day we walked into a room with a carom table...not being used.
I asked her “What do you see?”
She said “A table covered in cloth with no pockets..what else is there to see.”
I told her “I see a small universe...a white ball hitting lots of rails and finally finding a
third ball with a kiss...and avoiding unintended collisions on the way...you have to draw
sometimes with a little extra running english to miss a kiss with the first ball.....
...it ‘s like a miniature solar system where the orbs know their place...sometimes.”

She said “That’s why I have the need to call you...you’re seeing things I can’t see.”

A sage once said “Study a dewdrop and you’ll understand the universe.”
...billiards is my dewdrop

I've always said, if someone wants to know how things *really* work, go deep into a vast forest, sit down, shut up... and just observe for a few days. You'll see how things actually happen as nature intends. That's how I've always tried to look at pool. To find the underlying dynamics at play; not the obvious, but the nuances, the subtleties. Dewdrop is a perfect representation of that idea.