Sunday, 6 April 2003

The Day I love the early morning, first thing in the morning. I love being up before anyone else, drinking coffee in the near-dark, looking out at the street before dawn. It doesn't happen so often as it did, but I still love it when it does. The day always starts off full of promise. By that I mean it's like a clean sheet of paper, a blank canvas, a new roll of film, a... OK, enough analogies. I tend to think each day has a theme or character, be it clumsiness, or long-awaited-things-all-suddenly-happening-together -- like Friday just gone when my dear wife was offered a new job after a long selection process AND furniture we ordered months' ago arrived -- or discovering and living my inner Alpha Male for a day. It could be any kind of day, anything could happen. And then other people get out of bed. And children fight as they do. And, if a weekday, we leave for work, or otherwise not. We act, and we interact. And the day takes its shape. 10:48:10 PM    comment []

Back on Deck, Almost I've been quiet for a few days, mostly because I've been tired. I don't write for a living, so blogging is a slow, deliberate activity, and one that has to happen after the kids are done with of a night. That's never before 9:30 and, since I get up around 6:20 of a morning, by that time of night I'm getting tired enough to be fit for little more than reading the short and funny blog entries for the day, perhaps posting the odd (very odd) comment. Writing, for me, don't come easy. Last week, too, I was preoccupied with things personal. Us introverts tend to withdraw at such times. BUT, he said happily, this morning I struggled to consciousness after a miserable, broken night's sleep -- autumn is the worst time for allergies and I can't sleep when I can't breathe. And behold, my pickled brain was buzzing, albeit sluggishly, with things to say. Except that, being Sunday, I filled my day with kid stuff and cooking and a short sleep and sitting in the garden and thinking, and now it's late again, and I'm tired again. 10:31:19 PM    comment []