Three minutes until sunrise. \u00a0That\u2019s what they said on the radio as morning light slid into the bedroom thru the blinds on the windows behind us.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m lying still, she said. I don\u2019t want the dogs barking, yet. But it didn\u2019t last long, because when she rolled over (or was it me?), Mr. Guinness took that as a signal. And in that way the barking and hence the day began.<\/p>\n
That was more than three minutes ago, so the sun must be up\u2026 somewhere behind the trees, maybe. But it\u2019s still mercifully morning outside. It\u2019ll be hot soon enough, but the air outside is soothing now. I know this, because it caressed me a few minutes ago as I took a bucket of shower water outside to pour on the long-suffering Russian Sage and Zexmenia growing by the curb.<\/p>\n
And the air was soothing at the luau last night. It was Dave\u2019s 50th birthday, and there was roasted pig (complete with an apple in the mouth) and real flower leis and tiki torches and hula dancers with smiling faces and fluid movement showing the rolling waves and the winds blowing on the mountains and all those little pearly shells. There must have been something in the water, because I took the prodding that Gregg and Kelley and Trudy gave me and went up when the dancers called for volunteers\u2026 I didn’t quite embarrass myself, but let\u2019s just say that my pearly shells were not as graceful as they might have been.<\/p>\n
So why the silence lately?<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure. This stuff flows when it flows, and my suspicion is that the spring from which it comes is filling other streams of late. There\u2019s this project at work, you see. And I suspect that the flow has been going down that side of the mountain.<\/p>\n
It has been exhilarating in a way. Software people love their work because at its best it is an act of creation. When you\u2019re building a system from the ground up, everything is new and the sun rises for the first time every time you open a new file. When I open my laptop, there\u2019s this world dawning before me \u2014 a world of my doing, my creation.<\/p>\n
This, I suspect, is why it\u2019s been so quiet around here, lately.<\/p>\n
That and the fact that it\u2019s not so much fun to sit at a computer, anymore. What\u2019s up with that!?<\/p>\n
So…<\/p>\n
That caressing morning air outside calls. And the sun will be coming up in earnest soon.<\/p>\n
There is sitting to do on the bench outside.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s leave it there, shall we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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