Ten.Eight Hundred & Eighty-Nine

1. More rested than I expected to be.

2. That soft red glow again. I ought to hunt down it’s source. At first glance it looks like the coming of dawn but it’s on the wrong side of the sky.

3. I warm up the leftover soup for us while he builds a sandwich and the other decides he will eat nothing at all.

4. Bright sun. Unexpected. The hills are beginning to turn green again. Funny that winter here is both life and death at the same time. Some of the trees lose their leaves but the grass turns green again, the roses are blooming again, the birds of paradise are alert, the lemons continue to ripen.

5. I tell her that I want to use this opportunity to challenge, which is not the same thing as shaming. But I hope that we weren’t asked because we felt like safe choices.

6. I keep to myself.

7. I wonder if I’m overly responsive about this particular email. It’s just that I’m eager for something to do. I try to remind myself that this is just the season we’re in.

8. The softness of the linen. Maybe this is what should be on my Christmas list.

9. How many pages in this chapter? The next? Can I get through both before the bath water gets too cold?

10. I still don’t like strawberry ice cream.