Hey there fella, how you doin’-Day 10
It feels good to flirt, to loosen up and not clutch onto fear and control so tightly. Things I’m kinda sorta flirting with recently:
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• Not worrying about repainting the walls in this calico wallpapered house.
• Starting yet another young adult novel that’s been rolling around in my head for almost a decade. It’s got magic in it.
• My husband—when he’s least expecting it, too. Then not concerning myself with the cumbersome guilty feelings that ensue when I fall asleep without following through.
• Men in general, not in an overtly sexual way, just in an acknowledging and appreciating the opposite sex sort of way, not as a prospect, just as a reality in the human equation. It’s nice to sparkle like that.
• Never eating wheat again.
• Getting a treadmill. I love to run, but my knees cannot handle the road.
• Writing with a smidge more honesty about some things, and not writing at all about some other things anymore.
How about you? What are you flirting with?
"In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy."
~Henry David Thoreau
November 14th, 2006 at 11:20 am
I am flirting with becoming a runner and with financial stability. Both feel very close…I just have to make the decision to reach out and grab them.
November 15th, 2006 at 3:11 am
I love the idea of flirting in general. It suggests such an innocent enticement to life. I feel like I haven’t been flirting with anything lately, though now you’ve got me thinking about flirting more with my husband. And you’ve given me something interesting to mull over.