MY TIME IS WHEN

What’s your favorite time of day?

Just love the early morning hours when the house is quiet and still. The puppies(2 & 1 year old) & kittens (16 years old in October) are still sleeping. Opening the blinds I watch my neighbors drive away with sad faces going to their day jobs. Once they turn the corner the entire street is completely vacant until i walk up and down and one more time to complete my daily walk. The invisible neighbors yards all mowed and perfectly decorated. I’m jealous…a little? Ok a lot. My yard has apple tree, a pear tree, 30 or more strawberries, 2 blueberries and an oversized patch of raspberries. All but the raspberries are eaten by the wildlife. Happy to do my part helping by providing organic pesticide-free fruit to the aasshole animals who steal it just when perfectly ripened even before I can get it!!! 5 years and this year I gave up! I water it just for them 🤣😊🫐🍓🍐🍎

I attempted to grow marijuana once but had to stop after scraping up a few deceased woodchucks. They would eat the plants and then walk in traffic right in front of my house…. My street is not busy and the camera showed which car hit…..As if the car which struck them would even stop and take their prize? Nope. Animal control gave a 2 day wait on the first carcass so I got out the shovel and gave it dignity by tossing it where I tossed the plants I cut down. Woodchucks obviously don’t have portion control limits. 🧆🍽️🍛🍽️

Once my walk is complete I get a second cup of coffee, this one is over ice. Delicious. Skim oat frothing as I create a signature atop the coffee. As proud as I feel I have to question why is the most elegant part the first to go? Down into my tummy you must go!! It is the conversation I have with myself and the disappearing coffee both remaining the same but now locked inside of my head. Happy, serene and content all feel their escape of words continuing to pile up inside of my brain; first stop is the parietal lobe. (Pressure, touch and pain) once I feel the light flow through, there is an instant sense of feeling. Then on cue the occipital lobe flips itself on. Seeing many more things never experienced in the early morning light. Somehow the air mixed with the light is filtering into my brain. 🧠 It feels much different? It’s brighter and unfiltered by any light at all. Then enter my temporal lobe, I can see and hear the leaves as they start a group event planning for their eventual fall to the ground in magnificent form. Each ball of color is a joyful delight as my eyes adjust silently to the tease of what beauty is to come…. Fall leave brilliant orange and yellow straight from a color wheel of fall? The experience and delight never grows old (unlike us…) to experience the majestic show put on by each tree, one leaf at a time….. each year the show gets is far better than the last….. the world stops for the moment but only if you stop to enjoy it.

To suddenly see more, feel differently and discover what it is this world wants us to live in and experience fully immersed this moment…. It’s beautiful and undiscovered. I have found a little bit in the world only found during this magical time of the day……each and every morning! Can I call it my very own piece of heaven on earth? I should share….Would you like to join me for a walk to a new world? The street name is funny. Despite living here over 20 years I still giggle after reading the street name is kind of, sorta similar to that belonging to a truck. Once I share my secret giggly named street you will discover why I love my little walks around my house (without a prairie). Walkable both uphill and downhill. Both attainable in the same breath. So join me if only inside of your cerebrum to coordinate an imaginary wonderland inside of the one space I’ve always tried to escape from….. so Brain….. I should reintroduce myself. I’m Brenda, author and creator of the blog named….. um……. BOOK OF BRENDA. I’m happy to have met you.

Close your eyes and tell me what do you see? Open your eyes as wide as you can…..do you see what I see ? Thought so🥰 let us go for a walk around the block. I can’t wait to share what I have discovered all alone. Maybe with two sets of eyes we might see the average everyday become extra ordinary…..