On Tuesday, I was walking from the class I audit to meet a friend.  It was a perfect late summer day.  A pleasant looking man approached me and asked if I would take his picture in front of the building I was passing. I agreed.

He handed me his phone and asked if I had time to take a couple of pictures with his blazer on and then a couple with his blazer off.  I agreed to that also.  He particularly wanted the name of the building behind him to show. 

I asked where he was from, and he said Palestine and that he, a neurologist, was teaching at Harvard for a year (or maybe two).  The building he wanted as the background was Harvard University Health Services.

I took several pictures of him with and without his blazer, gave him back his camera and continued on my way to meet my friend.

My pleasant interchange with a total stranger made my sunny late summer morning.

I wondered who was going to see the photos, but I’ll never know.