Friday, April 23, 2010

Birds...and Senility...All in One Swoop

I just have to say this: it's been such a delightful spring listening to the songbirds in the neighborhood. The robins and cardinals and wrens make such happy sounds that my heart is lifted just listening to them. I remember a spring morning, just before dawn a year or two ago, when I pulled Robin out to the front stoop and said, "Listen!" Her face brightened and her jaw dropped as she heard the birds sing up the sun after a long winter. It was a special moment. So nice to have joy in such little things that come for free! Of course, there are also squirrels...and a bunny rabbit in the neighbor's yard. (There are also 'possums and raccoons that I have not seen yet. Don't want to!)

I didn't sleep well last night. Some people might not understand this, but I get pains from sleeping. Shoulder pain. Charlie horses. Stuff. Well...last night, I was awake at 2:30 with a pain in my chest--not heart, but muscle--from sleeping "wrong". I got up, took a Tylenol...and noticed something on my lip. It was a blood blister on my upper lip at the lip-closure line. I'd never done anything like that before!! When I finally got up for good, the blood blister came loose...then came off...with no damage underneath. Huh??? After examination, I found it to be a piece of kidney bean from the chili I ate just before I went to bed. It was really stuck on there! I guess I'm senile. How would I not notice something on my lip before I went to bed????

Ate a late lunch with radio friend Adam this afternoon. Have a social event with my Sunday School class tomorrow evening. Then it's Sunday again, already. Where does the time go???

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