Ten.Eight Hundred & Thirty-Three

1. I don’t want to get up.

2. Make the coffee first, then set the oven to warm, then make your juices.

3. Curious about what today will bring. Do I have enough time to journal this morning? Maybe just one page. One page is better than none.

4. No pages.

5. The thing about being so low and so close is that I have to wait too long for the morning light. I miss the old house with its wall full of windows, the way I could great the sunrise and sunset every day. I miss standing at the sliding door with my coffee looking for the deer and the foxes and the owls.

6. I will have to do the best I can.

7. The day goes by quickly; after a week like last week, I am good with things feeling a little slower.

8. James Baldwin and Maya Angelou had that same kind of voice, a church voice, a powerful voice, an intellectual voice, a honeyed voice; everything sounds like song, like in any minute they would begin to sing.

9. Oh yeah, this is good. It’s been so long since I’ve had it. A Brouilly that does not taste like Brouilly. We need to get back to Kermit Lynch soon.

10. Her stories say something like 3 more holidays until Christmas. I tighten up. Yeah. That’s right.