SINGING: I THINK I LOVE YOU, SO WHAT ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF?

Is this the face you want to see in traffic? Me neither, but I found myself making one just like it at some stranger that was staring at me in traffic on the way to work a couple of days ago. This isn't the first time it has happened. I don't know why I'm compelled to make strange faces at people and I do it all of the time. It's not limited to people who are staring at me in traffic, my friends get a healthy dose of it daily. Most of them find it amusing though. I don't even know I'm doing it most of the time, it's just me being silly. I'm gong to get my ass kicked one of these days and even though I'm sure I will have it coming to me, I will probably be shocked as hell and wonder what I had done to deserve it.

OPEN SPACES

When I was younger I was afraid to walk out in the open under the sky. I would run from tree to tree just to get to school. This went on for a couple of years. Why was I doing this? When I understood just how vast the universe is, how infinite it is, I couldn't endure the feeling of how minuscule I was when standing under the sky, the reality of how tiny I was and how vast and extensive the ceiling above me was. I've come to terms with that, but I still can't go more than to my knees when I'm in the ocean. Lakes I can handle, but the ocean is just to big. Isn't that weird?

WORDS OF WISDOM

Remembering back my sons first words were "Go lay down!" I guess telling our skittish little chihuahua to go lay down thousands of times a day influenced him a little. Soon after that came pointing at the dog and saying "Your a little bastard!" Oops, my bad...