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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
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Showering Thoughts and Falling Back Being more of a shower-person than a bath person, it comes as no surprise to me that my mind works just as well [or not] under the sting of the hottest water. I will stand for long, long moments just allowing the trickle and stream of water to hit and hurt and cascade over and down, allowing the only movement to be the wrinkling of my fingertips as time ticks on… Mom always said that I thought too much…and she was right. There is nothing grammatically correct about my thoughts, they stream as much as the water rivulets from the showerhead does, on and on, with drops reaching here and there and down and bouncing back up if they connect just right on this skin of thought. Water droplets all around, only to dissipate into a foggy mist or just dry up, period. It was 4:00 a.m., but it was really 5:00 a.m. when I awoke without use of alarms or recorded sounds or anything but this internal clock of mine. I don't despise the Fall Back time of setting clocks and alarms and VCRs, microwaves and pendulums, for most people will gain that hour of sleep, and I will gain an hour of active thought. I am most comfortable with myself, but unfortunately, some are not. It is hard to be a wakeful person when you are married to a sleepy person. No matter what I would do when awake at these oddly quiet hours, whether it be reading, ironing, watching TV or trying to kid myself that I may someday be a for-real author, I would be chastised by those who would sleep. Favorite word that pops up by my sleepyhead aroused from slumber is "you're obsessed." A guess on my part would be I feel that time is slipping by. Didn't we just exhibit and example that with the turning back of the clocks, which won't gain us any real time, because we will just give it up and back and away when we forward through it in Spring of 2001. And I just plain do not want to miss any of it. Karilea If I whisper, will you listen?...KRJ |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
Kari - If you've written something I associate with, this is it!!! This - quote: Could be taken directly from my life!!! Well done! Let the thoughts flow, from the shower or in the bath, the water's always warm!  Chris |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Ah Good Chris...two crazies in the world! Karilea If I whisper, will you listen?...KRJ |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
Whew! I'm not alone! Here I thought I was the only one of my kind on this planet... what with the ship crashing in the ocean and all - so what sector of Quixnorhorner IV did you come from???  |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Upper quadrant, where we who need little sleep see the most Sun! Where else? Karilea If I whisper, will you listen?...KRJ |
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angelface Junior Member
since 2000-10-25
Posts 40Savannah area, Georgia |
hmmm...I too have been told I think too much, (or laugh too much, or do anything too much) and have felt that people don't know what to do with me. It's good to know there's someone else out there!!! Thanks for this great bit of writing  i ride the flames of this terrible intensity and clutch them to my fingers |
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angelface Junior Member
since 2000-10-25
Posts 40Savannah area, Georgia |
hmmm...I too have been told I think too much, (or laugh too much, or do anything too much) and have felt that people don't know what to do with me. It's good to know there's someone else out there!!! Thanks for this great bit of writing i ride the flames of this terrible intensity and clutch them to my fingers |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
you are welcome, Angelface...it find it quite therapeutic... Karilea If I whisper, will you listen?...KRJ |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
Karilea- you write so well - I felt like it was myself standing there in the shower. (that thought took me further - but I won't go there )my showers outnumber my 'tubs' by about 400 to 1 - but it is time and water conservation more than preference creating these statistics - as I can (and do) think a lot in a deep tub of hot water - steam rising - etc. you can ruminate here as much as you like - I snse a kindred spirit - and I will read |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Mr. Yeats, I will thank you for the reply, and smile at your wandering mind...and I will continue to dwell in the misery of write, for someday...perhaps when I am dust, someone will again read these words, and say "I feel the very same way..." {~,^} Karilea If I whisper, will you listen?...KRJ |
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