SOUL MUD: Random Ramblings of my 24/7 Brain

Oh, but the blooms bring me a moment of bliss  and shield me from the brutality of a world  that extinguishes the fragile innocence of youth  and wilts the wonder this life holds.  ~ABS 5/7/2019

Today (5/7/2019):   More gun violence and this time so close to home.   Time for more “thoughts and prayers?”  Here we go again... Shoot. Bury. Pray. Repeat.  After spending some time contacting all the people I knew in the area of the STEM School in Highlands Ranch to make sure that their children were safe, I had flash back to the Columbine shooting (the 20 th anniversary of which was just over 2 weeks ago).   And then, I started listing off the school and mass shootings that have happened in the United States since then.   Ready to be horrified??? 1. Columbine High School Shooting, Littleton, Colorado – April 1999: 13 Dead 2. Atlanta Shootings, Atlanta, Georgia – July 1999: 12 Dead 3. Wedgwood Baptist Church shooting, Fort Worth, Texas – September 1999: 7 Dead 4. Xerox Killings, Honolulu, Hawaii – November 1999: 7 Dead 5. Tampa Hotel Shootings, Tampa, Florida – December 1999: 5 Dead 6. Wakefield Massacre, Wakefield, Massachusetts – December 2000: 7 Dead 7.

I like to sleep.  I like the feeling of drifting off to sleep in a cool, comfy bed with freshly bleached soft sheets in a cool dark room.  I like naps - short naps, long naps - all the kinds of naps.  I love feeling as thought I am stealing a little something out of the middle of the day.  I like to sleep on the couch, the guest bed, the patio, the porch, in the mountains, on the beach...I like to sleep.  I especially like the weird stage of falling asleep (that I refer to as twilight) where things, thoughts and sounds are distorted and oddly psychedelic and a little bizarre and yet I'm still conscious enough to know I'm in a bit of an alternate reality and I can think, "Whoa!  This is kinda cool."  I find that in that space before sleep settles in and takes over, (twilight) I am often the grateful recipient of inspiration and that is super cool.  For this very reason, I keep a pen and paper in my nightstand because as much as I think I'll remember an idea