Ten.One Thousand, Seven Hundred & One

1. I guess I shouldn’t have let myself sleep in after all.

2. Where are everyone’s clothes?

3. She walks through the hallway with her two long braids and her visor and her pants and she looks so much older than this same time last year.

4. For a brief moment, I wonder if this is going to be worth all of the trouble. And then I remind myself that there is nothing worse than knowing what the right thing to do is and yet choosing not to do it.

5. It is the fear of losing belonging.

6. The thing about this time of year is that yes, so much of our time is now taken up with trips to and from baseball fields, shelling out dollar bills for snack shacks, and sitting in bleachers. But look at this sky and all this sunshine. There are worse ways to spend these hours in a life.

7. These articles are never going to get written.

8. I look at my watch. It is almost 4pm.

9. We load up YouTube on the big tv and watch the last few minutes of the meeting while we finish our glass of wine. Things may be more in our favor than we realized.

10. I know this feeling.