Finding myself solitary, just the dog and me, iPod and the window by the bed with the lights off -- i realize, is bliss.
How often do we get to savor such moments with nary a distraction except the occasional pause to listen to some music? Hmmm...Life is as we take it. One friend is teaching me to embrace the light and dark parts of myself. So in silence and in a kind of disengagement i lose myself in thought. I can almost even smell what silence is like. Even as a young girl i would climb our rooftop in the late afternoon to catch the breeze and take in the view of the nearby fields. It was my ritual detaching from the world below.