Sunday, September 21, 2008

Echoes and silence, patience and grace

Sunday, I guess I have to make due. I had no Saturday as I had to work. I hate working Saturdays almost as much as I hate winter. At least I was paid for hating it. Winter does not pay. Today promises to be warm, sunny and beautiful. No signs of winter's impending doom, at least for the time being.

I am thinking about horse manure today. Odd, I know, but that's just the way I roll. It means I'm not in the city, I'm on the back of a bike with my arms wrapped around my man. I'm most likely on my way to the lake and I'm free to be me, even if only for a little while. It also inspires me to have patience, work hard at my hated corporate job, so that some day, I can own my own little patch of heaven, and smell horse manure every day and the animals, gardens, and green house can be my every day job. I want to be a farmer when I grow up and someday I will tell the corporate idiots to kiss my a$$ on it's way out of their locked doors.

The silence has been broken with a sweet whisper to hang on.

Hopefully, today, we will strap on the goggles and ride. I will smell the manure, freshly mowed grass, honey suckle and the sweetness that is Gil. I don't just badly want it, I need it. I need to feel the sunshine beat down upon me and the wind whip through my hair. I need to see the sun set over the lake, with my arms wrapped around the comfort, warmth and goodness that is this man and know all is right in my little corner of the world at least for the time being.

Live for today, don't worry about tomorrow, dream for the future.

Love,
Cow Punk

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear Cow Punk, I'm happy for you. Sounds promising and wonderful. I hope that you caught that sunset.
We'll hold on through winter. Perhaps by summer, we'll be grown up and can become farmers. Sounds wonderful to me.
Lots of Love
xoxo
Liz

Anonymous said...

Dear CowPunk....I'm glad you're living in the moment and enjoying Life....I have lots of horse manure I can send your way if you'd like some now....very sweet smelling....For Winter, we'll have to just Turn It On, Turn It Up & get through....would you consider a cooperative farm? can there be chickens? I love to hear a rooster crow at dawn..and a pond so we can listen to the frogs at night....and the soft nickering of horses...It's going to be beautiful
xxoo

cow punk said...

AliasLiz, no sunset for me...the bad nut showed up....Here's to a quick winter...

DA, I would be open to a co-op farm..you betcha...and lots of chickens and cows. I too love the sound of frogs...some of those big boys really can holler and beller, sounds beautiful!
I know there's lots of horse manure where you are! I loved it there, we hiked for miles in the southern part of your state. I did not want to ever leave!