The early morning, just before dawn, is an absolutely incredible time. You need to try it. Waking up early, grabbing a bagel and a cup of coffee and go outside and feel it. It only lasts for a few hours. By mid-morning, the heat is back and the sun making all the subtle colors disappear. But there is hope of relief just around the corner, like next week's corner.
It is so exciting, some of us in da 'hood have been practicing our 'Celebrating the Fall Weather' where the men dress in comfortable clothes, usually a flat twin sheet, preferably one without flowers or little cowboys stenciled on them. The men of Devonshire Avenue, as you can see, are serious about celebrating the cooling weather. Some prefer to run up and down the street yelling such great things as 'Free the Marigold Seven? Free the Marigold Seven?' Others, like our large friend here, prefer ancient ways of standing and stretching in their own Tia-Chi kind of way. Others just like to stand in their celebratory garb and sip on their coffee, using the sheets long tail to dab at the corner of the mouth for that little bit of coffee that didn't follow procedures.
Here's the thing about this time of day, this time of year. There is peace here. There is a tranquility that rivals anything else around. It doesn't stay long. I think that's the thing about peace, its rare, that's why its so valued. We fill our lives with every minute of every day of, well, stuff. Now, the stuff we do has levels of intensity---we don't think twice about traveling across town to walk a mall searching for a pair of socks or in the case of my neighbor Jujusko at the top of this blog, a nice queen size muslin sheet. A short time ago, that trip to the mall would have taken all day on a horse. Of course, there were no malls back then so you'd ride your horse to a place in the desert and it really doesn't make my point, but what I'm trying to say is, we seem to fill every moment of the day with doing stuff, shopping, repairing, hooking a large mouth bass, you get my point. We just don't sit and watch the world wake up.
The other thing is there is 'stuff' that is just wicked fun!! Like, belly surfing off the coast of the Aleutian Islands in the winter, paint ball hunting grizzly bears during the mating season, drinking three twenty ounce beers and then operating a John Deere D820 bucket loader in the Queen's flower garden, dressing up in a middle-eastern 'man dress', going to the airport and running passed TSA while yelling some random non-nonsensical jargon and trying to see how far you can get before they tackle you and shove you into a box. Maybe most of us aren't that much of the thrill seeking kind.
So, for us, we just need to go into our closet where we keep our sheets, wrap up and tomorrow morning, greet the day properly.
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