Ten.Eight Hundred & Sixty-Seven

1. 5:20. That’s more like it.

2. I stroke his round cheek a few times before climbing over his body to get ready for the morning. I don’t know what time he came back in.

3. Store before tasting group? Or after? After. Why rush myself this morning for no reason? Let today be slow.

4. Sometimes I guess it really is just about asking.

5. We try to parse out the differences in the blends. Is it the Viognier or the Marsanne? What next? Red wines from Australia and New Zealand it is.

6. The turbines move in slow motion. Sometimes it makes me feel like I’m disconnected from my body or traveling through space. Everything moving at a different rate.

7. I take my pants off and put on a tunic because the idea is to actually expose the skin to as much light as possible. As David Banner said, we are people of the sun.

8. You know you’re an adult when the package you’re most looking forward to is a steam mop.

9. The benefit of a persistent attitude, of being the kind of person who continually asks for what one wants, is that he often gets it. So here we are eating dinner out so that he can take advantage of the free meal he won for his achievements at school.

10. The ice cream is good but I can taste the baking soda in the cookie. I think of the mom in the booth across from us with her 4 children, the baby beside her yelling “mommymommymommy” in that way that only 15 month-olds do. I wish I had had a chance to tell her how great of a job she was doing before the jetted out of the restaurant.