Sleep

Ok so it's 2 in the morning right now, there is some distant thunder that can be heard through the stained window and hollow walls, and I can't sleep! I am wide awake at the moment and can not seem to fall asleep for the life of me. If I was a night bird that would be cool, because then I could watch the lightning spray across the sky like graffiti amidst a wall of black. Soaring, drifting, the billowing winds giving my body buoyancy as I sail through waves of trees and branches. The pale moonlight would provide just enough visibility to narrowly miss certain objects in my path, such as a dimming streetlight (enshrouded by a cloud of fog) might do for a quiet loner, wandering the streets vacantly at night. Such as I am, such will I be. Well, goodnight!

Things On My Mind

What would it be like to touch the sky, like dipping a finger into water? What if death wasn't viewed so bad by the world, but was seen as a new beginning? Why is forgiveness and forgetting such a hard combination? If love is patient, and if love is kind, then why do we mistake love for lust? Why is being single and happy such a crime to others that it involves an investigation?

""No" simply means begin again one level higher."
"When faced with two options........choose both."
"If you can't win, change the rules. If you can't change the rules, ignore them."
"The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live."
"Don't walk when you can run."
"Start at the top then work your way up."
"When faced without a challenge, make one."

The Sun.....a rebellious vampire

Ok so now that I have finally embraced my Cherokee Indian roots thanks to the sun, I wanted your opinions on this theory. My friend/ lifeguard Beth Lefoy and I came up with this idea that the sun is a rebellious vampire. Now to justify this, we noticed how the sun can literally drain the life right out of you, even sometimes causing death (heatstroke, sun poisoining, skin cancer, etc). So after a day of prolonged exposure to the sun (about six hours straight), screaming kids numbering about 100 and little water breaks, we came up with the ingenious theory that because the sun is draining the life out of us it must be a vampire. But unlike "normal vampires", the sun is out all day and has embraced the sunlight, in fact becoming the one thing his "kind" hates. Therefore, he must have rebelled. Instead of draining people dry by sucking their blood, he has decided to drain them of their life, their happiness and their sanity. But thankfully we have the grey guardians on our side (they protect the human race). That is for another post on another day. Thank you to Beth for many insights into the mysteries of life.