I finally slept last night, after a week of (a) insomnia and (b) stress and (c) Carl being both sick and stressed. Carl woke me up at 11 today. Eleven. Wow. I haven't slept that long or that soundly since I was a teenager. And it's not raining! It's beautiful out, with the sky a crisp aquamarine. The only mar is that it is still winter here. I think I would enjoy (at least the sight of) winter if there were something visually stimulating about the landscape, but I look out the windows and all I see are naked tree limbs and yellow-ochre colored grass and muddy ditches. No blankets of snow to help me pretend that winter has the capability of being pretty.
Green. I crave green. Spring is just a couple of months away. It's always this time of year (when the purple magnolias start blooming, and I finally have one by my kitchen window!) that I start feeling hopeful that spring won't be too far away and I just might make it after all.
Posted by toni at February 7, 2004 01:52 AM