sarah's Arty Dreams

When someone is not willing to share certain things, are they happy or really just brain dead? I had to take a few days off from blogging, (just a simple weekend) but I feel so much better coming back now. My outlook is much fresher and I see things in a new and bright light.

Sunday I wrote this.


"On this day, if I wanted peace and quiet I had to retreat to the backyard. Where the only sound was the wind picking up the leaves from the top of the trees and tossing them on each other. A barking dog a few houses away arose my thinking to wonder why he was barking....it is completely dead silent in the neighborhood today!


Inside the house electricity was emitted by the children playing, clapping and singing. Outside the mild, almost chilly temps engulfed me and relaxed my mind. Grayish white clouds covered a brilliant blue background of a sky as the sun would only peak through occasionally to warm my fair skin.


Now I am faced with a child with a mop of curly dark hair and big ebony eyes forcing me to read what I am writing in my journal entry.
"Tell me what it says.... now tell me what I am going to spell." She smiled and asked me to play her game of wanting attention. I read to her what I wrote and with her short attention span she ran off to jump on the trampoline and call her sister's out to join her.


I gazed up to the tallest tree in the yard following the longest branch from it's first leaf to where it begins on the trunk. Something catches my eye, it is a wooly tail tossed in the wind. Yellow rays of warm sunshine reach through to heat the little fuzzy animal as she slowly stretches awake from her quiet slumber. She must have been riled from the girl's playing. I really don't recall being able to watch a squirrel stretch and clean it's self in such a relaxed and safe manner. This tree must be her home and safe haven therefore she is able to do her daily routine of waking, cleaning and getting fired up to go in search of food.


As the weather gets cooler I wonder if this squirrel is preparing for the winter and where is the stash of food that she keeps hidden? The creature leaps up from her spot onto a higher branch above her and then scatters out of site. Why did the squirrel have to go? That was my only source of entertainment outside at the moment and I was completely lost in thought on such a simple and trivial thing that it amazed me and I craved to linger on in that moment!


All of the neighbor's yards are blocked from view by the 6 foot privacy fence. I regret the barrier now because I want to see life in the other yards around me. Is it nosey or just pure boredom on my part?


As the girls begin to all come out into the yard, the noise level steadily increases. I give in and join them on the bouncing trampoline then later fix up their bikes a bit airing tires, straightening chains and handle bars and when they head towards the front to ride I feel refreshed and thoughts linking once again.

That was only a glimpse of my Sunday.







Sarah

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