Are you tired? I am. My legs are aching with it. And my feet. And the palms of my hands. And my eyelids.<\/p>\n
My eyelids are tired, but they will not close. I lie in bed with chapter 12 of Natalie Goldberg open above my head and a tower of books beside me on the table. But I can neither read, because I am too tired, nor fall asleep, because\u2026 well just because I can\u2019t seem to fall asleep.<\/p>\n
The dogs don\u2019t have this problem, especially Mr. Guinness. Nor does Trudy. The house is quiet.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you ok?\u201d she asked me this afternoon. \u201cWe need to go and do something.”<\/p>\n
I guess planting those salvias amid the fog of mosquitos didn\u2019t count as something. I guess we need to do something else. Of course, she\u2019s right. We were going to go camping, but it rained. And I was going to go kayaking in the bright red kayak, but it rained. And because it rained, the mosquitos came. And…<\/p>\n
Are you tired? I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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