10/14/03

The leaves, somehow they create a sense of urgency.  Months go by with intoxicating sunshine and the colors of warmth.  They one day everything changes…overnight it would seem.  One does not have the chance to notice that the leaves are changing, and already they are beginning to fall.  Once again October has managed to sneak up on us.  The air is different, there is a less friendly attitude in its gusts and demeanor.  At night one can see their breath fill the air in front of them.  Its all together too east to see especially in the night sky when the moon beams brightest; foreshadowing the color of the coming snow of winter.

I heard thunder today, probably for the last time this year.  The soothing sound that helps me sleep at night was nothing more than a whisper of an old friend saying goodbye for the winter…I feel like we are all bears getting ready for hibernation.  We need to take in as much as possible we head our separate ways and retire for a long and lonely season.

And so there is this urgency…to laugh all I can among my friends, to see everyone that have not in a significant amount of time, to talk to someone that I have never met…to love…why?  Because winter looms on the horizon; a season so bleak that it seems to last a decade.

Soon the outside will be cold, the inside will be cozy, the sweatshirts will be put away and traded for the heavy coats of winter…and so my thoughts reside in springtime once again

10/14/04

Peace and Love

Mikey