Ten.One Thousand & Thirty-Five

1. I hear voices. Voices from a tv. I walk the house trying to see if someone is up. No one is. Just my imagination.

2. Still hearing the voices. I get up. Nothing. It must be the combination of the sprinklers and the sound machine playing tricks on me.

3. Water.

4. I am, I am, I am.

5. I listen to the replay and, once again, find myself back in the auditorium. She is indeed giving a sermon; you can tell by the way she talks that she is a preacher’s daughter.

6. “Let this moment radicalize you.” - Devita Davidson

7. “Clarity only matters if we put it into action.” - Therese Nelson

8. I stare up at the clear blue sky. I hear everything: the hummingbird’s hum, the buzz of those giant black bees, the neighbor’s theatrical sneezes. I hear it all and I feel it all.

9. The dread is real and telling. What would it require to shift?

10. “So much of the satisfying work of life begins as an experiment; having learned, no experiment is ever quite a failure.” - Alice Walker