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What goes up, must come down
My body and brain are crashing
and I must resist temptation
to post here
knowing full well
anything I say can and will be used against me

Did someone already come up with the phrase "Thank G-d it's Friday"
and how did that brilliant person know Just How I Feel tonight?

I met my writer friends at a diner today
We talked shop
I filled them in on Kindling
and the drive and the fiction strand
and the bonfire and the wishes
and the writers that welcomed me with open arms

They said I was glowing
Like I was in love
That look we get when romance is mysterious and mythical
That feeling we get that we can literally walk on water

If this is love, I hope the honeymoon never ends
(although I know it always does, the blessing or curse of getting older)

Holding on to this spirit of enchantment and infatuation won't be easy--
(I know, realistically, we are odd creatures and err on the side of angst and worries-- of which I have many and many)--

but I will do what I can to protect and defend the fire in my fingertips.

The weather is deadful: monsoon rains since early morning
and I've lost my ambition to do anything of consequence this evening
In fact, these letters I type may be the heaviest of lifting I attempt all day.

Not true.
My eyes are yearning to close
And I am fighting them,
fighting sleep,
fighting letting myself go into the abyss of
nothingness

Give me a few minutes. I'm sure I'm headed that way.
It's not nice to deny Mother Nature what's due. And what I am due for is
sleep
A Very Deep Sleep

where I am sure I will dream of
quiet revelations found in
trees and lightning bolts and magic and Mrs. Gladstone and Stanley Yelnats and handsome waiters carving slices of honey-soft steak...

No joke.
I just fell asleep
at my desk
before I sent this to Live Journal.

There was a dream in those few seconds of slumber
but I can't remember anything
and I'm shaking my legs and arms out,
trying to re-ignite my engine tonight
but, like my car last weekend,
I think my oil pressure is leaking
and I have to stop this car,
safely