Isn’t the Light OK?

Image by Steve Rhodes via Flick

A lit­er­ate coun­try — a hope­fuller country…

- For­mer Leader of the Free World, George W. Bush

Recent events have tran­spired to make me less despair­ing of the future. Here, in ram­bling, semi-coherent form, are a few of the rea­sons I feel, well, “hopefuller.”

Per­haps it’s the change in the weather. Warmer tem­per­a­tures, longer days, more sun­light — these are all very pos­i­tive devel­op­ments. It’s almost embar­rass­ing how much bet­ter I felt after our first few days of spring-like weather this year.

Another plus — today’s my birth­day. The entire month of May for me usu­ally is mea­sured in “amount of time pre­ced­ing or after my birth­day.” I’ve come to the con­clu­sion that I enjoy this time year so much because it was the first sea­son I ever knew. I can just imag­ine myself as a baby, being used to spring and sum­mer, sud­denly feel­ing colder air com­ing on in autumn and think­ing, “Dude, WTF?”

Yes, in my mind, infants speak in IM/txt acronyms.

I’ve spent at least 10 min­utes each day for the past week and a half near the water. My cur­rent favorite spot for this is the water­front park in Gar­diner. I’ve taken to eat­ing my break­fast there, watch­ing the waves, lis­ten­ing to music in my car. It’s a great way to start off the day, and I can’t imag­ine why I never thought of it before.

Also, I don’t want to jinx any­thing, but Carla’s been feel­ing bet­ter. This by itself would be a huge relief.

Last, but not least, I’m enjoy­ing ideas again. Who knows if any­thing will come of them, but I’m not shoot­ing down any weird cre­ative pos­si­bil­i­ties my head may invent just because they’re weird and creative.

This feel­ing may stay. I will allow it.

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