Âme Sweet Âme

Open the eyes, grateful for a non-interrupted night sleep. If there is time, 10 min of guided meditation. Knock on my 15-yo son's door. ''Good morning, we leave in 25 minutes''. Use the air dryer for 5-10 min to dry his jeans at the seams that didn't fully dry on the rack overnight. Sips of coffee and pieces of an apple between dressing, bed-making, wifi unpausing on the addicted youth's electronics, then drive said youth to bus stop and school. The few questions asked to a 15-yo all seem to have something wrong in them. Drive back home, and if I am blessed with a late start in clinic or a day off, I have time for a 6-km jog. Shower, then finish breakfast outside, journal in the sun while my hair dries. Find small red snake (alive) floating on my pool. Remember a baby's name that contained a pair of parentheses, because I didn't know the gender when I miscarried. Emmanuel(le). Running around in my head as I try to finish notes between seeing patients...