Promises

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Summer 2009

Amelia went to Disneyland with a friend and bought a 20.00 journal. She was so proud and held it all night. Not all night.... anyway.

This summer we are going to read. Everyday.

Sydney.... nothing coming to the top of my head.

Today we are going to the beach. Hopefully it warms up enough to enjoy the trip.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Pay Attention

Writing comes from paying attention...to life.

So I'm paying attention: Here's a story...

My cat is patiently waiting for a lizard to appear out of the door. Back up with me. I get home and see all three of my pretty cats assembled at the sliding door. For a split second, I thought, "how sweet!" However, I soon realized that they were gathering to watch the execution of a lizard they had dragged into the house. The lizard was inside the door "slider" and the cats couldn't seem to get it out.

Now I don't have a desire to save the Lizard population, but at the same time, I did not want to clean up lizard guts for the 3rd time. So I got the dust pan out to try to scoop him/her up and throw her in the neighbor's yard.

No luck. The little guy scurried under the sliding door. So I gently opened the door to see if he/she would come out the other end. Nope. Just barely could I see her/his little head.

So I waited for a few minutes...seconds. For some reason, I decided to close the door again... Jam.... Yep, it jammed just enough that I think I killed the lizard inside the sliding part to my door. I tried to close it again and could feel resistance. I stood up and on the count to three, closed the door with all my human strength - well not that hard.

It closed, but I can only imagine the lizard guts being spread as I closed. That was 20 minutes ago.

My poor cat is waiting for that Lizard to emerge.