Friday, April 11, 2008

bon iver

...is good music and you should listen to it.

Today i sat at my usual summer haunt, but spring tapped me on the shoulder halfway through my second chapter as if to say See that shivering? you cannot be out here yet. go home and be healthy and warm.

i look forward to the changing of spring into summer, knowing that fall will be next followed by winter, which will result in spring and yet another summer. i find such habits extremely comforting. for example, today i went to get my illinois driver's license at some usual office where they do such things, and after being severely agitated and put on edge by the walls of politics and schmoozing that goes on in a place like that, i sat and thought about summer.

the intense feelings of agitation had gone and i was left with this wonderful, childlike feeling of expectance. summer! now is the time to start anew and to try things again!

this is why i love mornings. why i love every morning--no matter the weather or mood i am in. because mornings mean a chance to start fresh and with renewed purpose.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I wake up in the morning and I think...I get to make Andrew read me his reading book (again...even though I had to practically straight jacket him last time), and make their breakfasts (again...even though they will complain because I'm giving them eggs and toast instead of cocoa puffs), and put out more energy than all three of them or else we'll all have to suffer the consequences. But if I win, we all laugh and life is beautiful.