Sometimes I nap a little during the day and consequently lie awake at night. Tonight I was lying in bed, just listening. The leaves in a hardwood forest are great sound insulators, you know? When they start to fall you begin to hear more sounds. Tonight I could hear a lonesome train whistle, miles away, at the foot of the mountain. Later I could hear a dog barking, probably a mile away on another ridge. Was he one of those dogs that bark at nothing, or did he smell a cougar?
Beside me I could hear my wife's quiet breathing as she slept. She sounds like a puppy sleeping and snugs close to get warm. It makes even insomnia pretty cool. I lay and think about ideas for stories and ideas for blogs. If I don't consciously steer my thoughts elsewhere, I might think of worries. An acorn falls off one of the chestnut oaks that tower over our home. Falling from sixty feet up it makes quite a thunk when it hits the roof. You get so used to them that you don't usually wake up.
I get up and play a few games on the I-Pad and read a bit. It's a cool night and sometimes on a cool night I like to have a fire in the fireplace and read a book. I'll tend the fire and watch it, reading in the quiet room. I especially like to read westerns in that setting. Mood reading?
Every once in a while I'll go out and sit on the porch rail at night. The dead leaves that are left on the trees like to rattle in the wind and you can see spider webs festooning small areas. Sounds like Charlie Brown's Halloween, doesn't it? Well, it is October here in the green retreat.
CE Wills
Beside me I could hear my wife's quiet breathing as she slept. She sounds like a puppy sleeping and snugs close to get warm. It makes even insomnia pretty cool. I lay and think about ideas for stories and ideas for blogs. If I don't consciously steer my thoughts elsewhere, I might think of worries. An acorn falls off one of the chestnut oaks that tower over our home. Falling from sixty feet up it makes quite a thunk when it hits the roof. You get so used to them that you don't usually wake up.
I get up and play a few games on the I-Pad and read a bit. It's a cool night and sometimes on a cool night I like to have a fire in the fireplace and read a book. I'll tend the fire and watch it, reading in the quiet room. I especially like to read westerns in that setting. Mood reading?
Every once in a while I'll go out and sit on the porch rail at night. The dead leaves that are left on the trees like to rattle in the wind and you can see spider webs festooning small areas. Sounds like Charlie Brown's Halloween, doesn't it? Well, it is October here in the green retreat.
CE Wills
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