Three Hours
It was the same damn sky. I left the driveway in my car as a fusion of Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World came on the satellite radio. The overall effect of high blue and a gentle warble atop the ukulele should've inspired something like contentment, but instead I listened closely to the lyrics for a meaning I could relate to. It was right there. I didn't have to wait long. The wonderful world over the rainbow is a dream. Before I got into the car I watched a ceremony and fed the baby. Then I drove to book club, where a group of us sat for two hours discussing things like organic food, the ubiquitousness of corn , and too many roosters in my friend's coop. Afterward I tooled over to the gas station to put $55 onto my credit card for transmittal to the Gulf. Soon after my day began--at home, while the baby ate, at ten till nine--a young woman was reading the As on the alphabetical list of victims from the Twin Towers. Z did not come till I returned home, ten minut...
Go to the garage and put that girl behind a lawnmower!
ReplyDeleteshe's huge!!!! I can't believe how big she is getting!
ReplyDelete1) Good for you!
ReplyDelete2) I love her outfit. I would have liked something like that when I was a wee thing.
3) That third picture of the Boss cracks me up!
She's SO CUTE!
ReplyDeleteOh. My. God.
ReplyDeleteI want to squeeze her!
hmmmpf. ok. understood.
ReplyDeleteoh, and um. gorgeous. wow.
OMG she is so adorable. I can't believe how incredibly fast they grow! She's such a little GIRL now, no more baby in sight.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy enjoy enjoy. Remember, it all goes too fast anyway :(
Hear, hear!!!
ReplyDeleteshe's getting so big!
ReplyDeleteLook how big she is!! When did her hair grow that long?
ReplyDeleteShe's so CUTE! I could eat her up.
ReplyDeleteShe is so beautiful.
ReplyDeletewow. I love her. Love love love. She is really funny.
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