After coming in this morning, the guys were off to work and the little ones still sleeping, I'm like, "Yes. I can take a full fledged bath. Not a rushed one, but a soaky one." So I cleaned the tub and ran the water and immersed ever so slowly. I did not want to disturb the surface too much, or the quiet of the room, or even the sound of dink-dink coming from the faucet as the last drops of water fell into and joined the warm aqueous deluge of drippy saturating solace...

I laid back and said goodbye to the salty sweat of the morning after run. Laying there I emptied my mind and let the endorphins do their magic... I washed my hair and body, and shaved my legs. I had a lazy thought about reading a book and picked one up and read the sentence:

Because we've been left with so little to rely on we're forced into self-protective amnesia. If our places change so radically, so quickly, what do the lives we've lived in them mean? The rhythm of change and persistence, the balance of past and present, has been warped....

I couldn't even bother with thinking about what it meant so I marked my page and closed it. The thought that came to me was this, and I suppose it would be considered from the voice of God in certain circles, but it said, "It's probably time to just live what you've learned for awhile."

I was like, "Is that why I've been so empty of things to write about?"
It said, "Yep, pretty much. You're better off to go and gather up some more experiencs for awhile. Taking along all the crap you've figured out over the past year or so ofcourse."
And I went, "Oh. All right. I'll do that."

So I got outta the bath and dried off and put my hair into a towel. You know, I love this time of year when you finally get outside in the sun and your skin takes on new color? A little lip gloss and it's all the make-up you need.

Anyhow, I was wandering around the upstairs in the buff looking for something to wear and I looked over and the window blind was up. Hello neighbors, because yes, the window is as big as Jesus. But I thought to myself, I look pretty good naked so who cares? And something else, everyone is naked even if they have something on.