Solitude

Today, the weather is beautiful. It's in the 50's, the sky is blue and cloudless, everything looks bright and green after such a long winter, and the birds are singing. It's a day where you just want to lie in the sunlight and forget about your problems.

Taking a cushion from our lawn furniture, I sat on the grass next to my lovely newfoundland, Bryza. We just sat there. The wind blew and the sun shone. People walked past and cars whizzed by. The birds chirped. The squirrels feasted on spring spoils. It was quiet, calm, soothing.

And I got to thinking. I sat there with nothing but my thoughts. No music, no homework, no books. Just nature and I. And I wondered about my dog. She's well trained. We leave her outside and she just sleeps on the lawn. She might chase a squirrel if the mood takes her, but for the most part she just lies there, watching.

I wonder what it's like to be her. Spending each day simply watching. Whether it be sunny or rainy, warm or cold, spring or fall, just to lie in the same places and see.

Lately, a curious robin has been hanging around my house. It prances around the front lawn on its spindly legs and doesn't take much heed of anything. If you walk towards it, it'll scamper away. Never fly. You can make all the noise you want and it'll stay put. It circles dear Bryza and neither seems to notice the other. Bryza doesn't chase it. I wonder if she doesn't because the bird is simply company.

Maybe it's lonely to be her. So lonely you don't bother those around you because you're afraid they'll leave you alone. A sobering thought, at the very least.

I'm not sure where I wanted to go with this post. I guess I just wanted to get those thoughts out. I'm going to head back out to the sunshine: this time with East of Eden and my French textbook. ^^'

On BEDA and Spring Showers

Oh, it's April 1st?

Apparently, this year I'll be trying to participate in Blog Every Day in April, or BEDA. I say apparently seeing as I wouldn't have remembered if Kristina Horner (italktosnakes) hadn't updated her own blog.

Now on to the real blog.

As I'm sure you're aware (seeing as I pointed it out above), it's now April. New England was hit with a Nor' Easter today, bringing heavy wet snow as well as rain. All day I heard moans and groans about how it's Spring and that it shouldn't be snowing. It seems that I'm the only person who realizes that, hold on to your socks, it snows in Spring. In fact, the weather is pretty gross until nearly May.

Buh, I guess it just bothers me that people don't understand that. So it snowed on April 1st. Why don't you go write home to your mommy about it so she can kiss your emotional boo-boo and make it all better?

Whoa, snarky way to start the month. I'll try to be more interesting tomorrow, handful of people who might read this. Until then, I'll be wasting my time on http://www.fmylife.com/.

Oh.

http://www.wwwdotcom.com/

Heh.