sunday musings.......

the rain.........how i love the rain.
if you ever need a thousand million kisses, the rain will provide.
if you're blue, the rain will match the mood
if you're happy on a summer day and the rain comes, your feet can dance in the sudden puddles
splashing isn't just for birds and pups ya know.
the rain gives me cover........just like the sun.
the sun and i are both playing hide n seek this day
i did my chores.  good girl, gold star.  pat on the back.
ate brunch.........the kitties watched me dine avidly.
hoping for a scrap of anything to drop.
last night i found annie licking the kitchen sink.
my sweet green eyed purr bucket of an annie cat
...a sink licker!
what?????????????
seems like the pet parents are the last to know.
other than me and you most folks don't even know of Rio's feline existence.
he's a hider....under the bed, behind the couch, runs to anywhere unfamiliar people smells are not.
but he's a very social kittums around me......the second they are gone he's runs and flings himself on mylap.
as though to say, finally the boogey man is gone.......mom, why'd you let them stay so long.
my cats need more socialization, but i don't see me creating a kitty play group in the near ever of ever of ever.
so what is gonna happen today?
not much.  enjoying clean hair, fresh cotton on my back.......the sound of the washing machine.  the silence after the rain.......everything is so wet.  loving the quiet green outside the window. 
if we're not spring chickens anymore does that make us fall chickens?
recently i saw a small plaque that said if you didn't know your age, what age would you be?
i've been thinking on that........somewhere between 7 and 81. 
got a haircut so i can SEE again.........Lisa has decided to call me the "silver fox".......ha ha ha.......she's a nice lady and she thinks i should become a comedian. 
it's good to get out, cause even if we're not perfect, or healthy or able to get out much, when we do.....we get to meet nice someones like Lisa, the hair stylist........who listens and shares and hugs.
and that is the gratitude i was looking for.......I am grateful for Lisa, because she sees people, she treats each person as an individual worth getting to know.  that has always been a long  time goal of mine, to be like that.........so when i see if i feel that reaffirming life stir within, to continue to strive to see others.......and to not knock down or rip apart compliments when they come my way.......do you do that?  refute people when they compliment you or are you able to just say thank you........you're so kind!
i am reading the oddest book, Valeria's Last Stand.  So unlike anything I normally read......I am intrigued by this writer........at times I hate the way he describes people in his story and at other times I am in awe of how he moves the story along.
the most recent thing he did that i thought was so cool?  he divides the book into two parts......i've just entered part two........to open part two he begins speaking about a bicycle in Eastern Europe.  it was a gift to this chap, then that girl, then that person, then this one........it was stolen, then recooped......then more and more and more owners of this bicycle until it came into the hands of the chimney sweep who is riding into the village we have come to know about in book one. 
this author writes of wars and anarchists and crazy capitalists and pitiful stupid peasants and while at times i want to throw the book at the wall........i keep picking it up and turning the pages.  i think this book is good for me, i am seeing words reassembled in ways that intrigue and excite me as a lover of the written word.........often he writes as though he is a woman in her fifties and again another woman in her sixties and when he does i want to call him across the mat........i don't know of any women who think or talk like that.......and i think he doesn't know  women that well.......or does he?
maybe i need to expand my views........and maybe he needs to understand that women are not cut from the same cloth.....what i want is to sit down with this author and have it out......talk about his book.
huh..........i didn't see that coming.......i am grateful to feel good enough to read........something as deep and intricate as this book.  normally i wouldn't be able to manage it........so that's a sigh of good things. 
just me rambling and thinking out loud in journal mode.  i wish it was somebody's birthday, cause i want cake.  let's light some candles and sing the song..........and have a treat later.