Ten.Two Thousand & Twenty-Seven

1. 5:38 a.m.

2. Yoga day. The children are still asleep. Move the dining room table. Sweep the crumbs off the carpet. Lay out the mats.

3. It feels like I’m going on a vacation, and I am weirdly excited about it.

4. I make a salad and take myself out to the porch. Half sun, half shade. The sound of a weedwhacker.

5. All white everything.

6. So close. So close. And yet, so far.

7. I am not yet to Jameson Canyon, and already I feel drowsy. I start to munch on the pretzels. I start to wonder why it is that sometimes driving makes me sleepy. I have to stay awake. I have so far to go.

8. A glowy moon sitting low in the sky.

9. Soft water. Weird suburban takeout. Negative COVID test - it really must just be the allergies.

10. A bed to myself.