Skelichik

The kind of silence I am surrounded by now is the kind that you have to keep, because if you speak, the silence will shatter, and it will not be the only thing that does.

As a writer I spend so much time in my head, in other worlds, in the minds of other characters, that I sometimes feel like I just send my body out to do the routine here on planet earth while the rest of me is someplace else.   I think sometimes it's good to come back 'home', recall myself to this plane of existence and take a fresh look around.  Did that this morning as the sun crept over the field near where I work and was treated to the astonishingly beautiful sight of ice crystals sparkling like shards of mithril all across the ground.  Sometimes it pays to be awake.  Like Dumbledore said, "It does not do to dwell on dreams, harry, and forget to live."

SK

...sometimes it's way too complicated.  At times like this I am reminded of a song from Red Dwarf:

I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose
Drinking fresh mango juice;
Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes
Fun, fun, fun...
In the sun, sun, sun...

I cast my petals upon the water.  
I watch them drift out with the tide.
I watch them circle in the eddies.
In silence I sit and ask myself why.

Skelichik

...just when you think you are going under this world's wave of darkness for the last time, illumination happens and you get to see wonder in the hands of another, and you get to count yourself blessed.