What Is So Special About Today?
Just In Case You Haven't Noticed
We are both here
No matter what our differences are
We somehow made it through all the rigmarole
Every day can be a problem
One we did not anticipate
One we could never expect
Never the less
It hit us right between the eyes
Like a pie in the face in the old movies
Now I just got claws in my back from my cat Charlotte
Hey, we don't do that!
As I wince all of a sudden
A weird combination of shock and pain
I think she was stretching
She didn't really mean it
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
She is trying to tell me something
Maybe how special today is
Wake up sleepy head and enjoy this moment
Maybe something totally different
That we have to cut her nails
Because we forgot again
Then again it could be...
I am here
I need your full attention
Even though she sleeps by my side
She comes on our bed when she feels like it
She comes and goes as she pleases
If she wants to be patted she is right there
When she wants to be left alone she will disappear
Finicky as she is
Aren't we all a little like her
So I can't blame her
When she is so much like me
I am up early once again
The sun isn't up
I look at my wife
She is in a lovely, deep sleep
Where I know I was an hour ago
Not a care in the world
At least one that I can remember
With my eyes slowly adjusting to the kitchen light
I will be alright
I will do my best to see another day through
Not to the end
So much more
To a new beginning
When I got up to go the bathroom
My cat Charlotte follows me
She was also in my bed sleeping soundly
I tried not to wake her
It was no use
As I moved she didn't hesitate
I know if that was my wife getting out of bed
I would have felt her presence
Then probably rolled over into her warm spot
Feeling the comfort
Sleepy and knowing she will come back to bed
Because, just like me she had to go pee
It is way too early
She works later in the day and so do I
If it was about nine o'clock
Out of the blue she says I have to get up
Like a little bell went off in her head
Not me i shut off anything that looks and sounds like an alarm
I will sleep a little later close to ten o'clock
I love sleep
If I could get paid to sleep all day I would
That would be my perfect job
I don't remember many of my dreams
I do know I feel refreshed and well-rested
There are so many magical thoughts
I think about in one day
I care for other people and hope they are healthy and well
The President Of The United States and the First Lady came down with the Corona Virus
I pray they will get better
No different than if you were sick
The list goes on
As I often think of my many family and friends
Then again why stop there
How about strangers I don't even know
Basically, just because I didn't have the pleasure of meeting you
It doesn't mean I can't care and I shouldn't care
It is one of the gifts we have from being human
I think of how awful it is when babies are sick
Young children and the elderly
It is one thing to understand
To be in good health prior and then have to deal with a cold or not feeling well
It is altogether another thing
When you aren't well, to begin with
How can we really care for each other?
Stop all the nonsense
Always causing trouble and picking a fight
One after another
Every day I see it everywhere I look
In the news and now it has trickled through my work
It has seeped through my private life
Now this has to stop
I won't have any of it
I am not going to worry from day to day
I have so many more things that need my attention
That downright deserve my attention
Time is limited
There is an endless amount of hubs here on HubPages I want to read
About all the lovely things in life
That wonderful people have spent hours writing about
Each hub moves me in a different way
Sometimes sad and it really tears me up
Other times it captures my joy in such a way I couldn't
I could just as easily watch t.v.
There is an endless amount of programs to watch
I have been there
Many times before
Now as I get older
My desire to read is even more powerful
I want to read words and listen to those words dance in my mind
Bounce around rattling my brain
Like a gumball in a gum machine
Rolling down the shoot
Like all my favorite foods I can't wait to eat
Like all the good memories I have experienced
In my life
Here it is I am fifty-six years old
I have just scratched the surface of all the things I like
I am a lot like an itch you have to scratch
It doesn't stop there
It feels great
You couldn't wait
Then it will come back unexpected
It will feel just as good the second and third time around
I never get tired of scratching that itch
So when I think about today and so many more like this one
How and what I will do
Depends on my attitude and how I am feeling right at this moment
When I tap into that feeling
No different than turning on a garden hose
Look out world I might just be a drip
Then again I could go full force and be a real blast