A Man With Panache. Brentwood, December 2010.

How do you describe a man?  Can you describe a man with one word?  It is my belief that under ideal conditions, one can do just this.

Say, for example, you are typing on a laptop in a coffee house a few blocks away from your home.  It is a chilly winter's day with intermittent rain, and you are bundled up under a few layers of fleece and cotton.  Across from you, you see a man.  A man who has no qualms about taking off his boots in public and sliding on large, woolen slippers.

I watched him begin the process of swapping his rain boots for slippers, and I had no choice but to take a candid photo.

Once cozy in his wool slippers which came halfway up his calf, the man turned to his coffee, his muffin, and his newspaper.

One word.  Panache.