Sleepy Voices

So........as I awaken, red blurry numbers coming into focus, it is way to early. All my mind needed to sputter to life. Yet recently, the mind snaps to in a heartbeat or two. Useless to close them and grab a couple of more hours of peaceful sleep as I already had a few. Plus the two hours of much needed nap, yesterday afternoon on the couch, missing most of Brother, Where Art Though.....Narcolepsy, thanks to the worlds greatest hypnotist, television. Have not napped for weeks. Not a bad concept as my optimum creative time is before sunrise. Before the drama of humans begin.

Recognizing I sleep only four to five hours, believing as I age I require less slumber. When I try for more, the sleepy voices say, "ass up, the world needs you." Then the rest of the committee chimes in unison, "Early bird, go get worm." Dad say, "up and at em' Knothead." The angelic choir, turning up the volume in the background, singing "Oh What A Beautiful Morning." Then I see Elmer and his shotgun, rolling out of the sack to that classical spring morning song orchestral, to get the cwazy wabbit. "All right, I'm up!!"

Once I am up, then choices have to be made. Toilet, coffee, tobacco ceremony, write, shave, shower, shampoo, clothes, phone, drive.....not necessarily in that order, and often two or three of those at a time, such as toilet, coffee, and phone. I am amazed at how much personal tasking goes on for a human prior to leaving the abode. Supposing the house breathes a sigh of relief to see them leave. The house is silent and resting now.

Today is Wednesday. A new POTUS is on deck.(acronym for our new President) I am not military or a vet, yet I am up on terminology. I do not watch TV or read the paper but once a week, and sometimes I miss a week. My choice as I can get sucked into the negatives so very easy. I will go out the door in a couple of hours to a Native American treatment center and show myself to them. I will be going to work there soon, doing what I do. I will ponder my own acronym. "Go get worm."

StevenLoon

If I can get through the day without condemning, criticizing or complaining, it's been a good day. If I don't give advice, it's been perfect. - Flloyd Ashcraft