Early Morning Ramblings

Strange dreams last night. Recording some sort of music/non-music work. Music format, with multiple movements, different people involved, but more or less just breathing? Snoring? There were good takes that I was happy with... I don't know. It was definitely strange. I woke with a sense of peace and an extremely clear mind.

I woke an entire hour before the first alarm went off, on a day when I didn't even have to get up with any one of my husband's 4, yes 4, alarms. I am on Thanksgiving break from my school job and usual 5:45 rude awakening. Rather than try and force myself back to the land of strange dreams and two warm and fuzzy, softly purring cats cradling my head, I opted to get up and get a few things accomplished. I'm not a morning person at all, but this morning, I was somehow a super morning person. All before 7am, when I finally coaxed my hubby out of bed with breakfast (something I never prepare), I managed to change out the laundry, take out the recycling, take a brisk walk on the treadmill while reading part of a Hermann Hesse novel, take a ride on the elliptical machine, do about 30 minutes of pilates, and walk around the back yard and appreciate all of the glorious stars above (being somewhat near the country, there are fewer city lights here). And they were quite spectacular this morning, twinkling ever so softly against the near black sky. It is cold this morning, frost on the ground and cars, but somehow my appreciation and awe kept my mind off of the coldness my fingers were feeling. I remembered a thought that a friend once shared with me, when he was talking about perspective. He told me to consider one grain of sand. And then, to consider how small that one grain of sand is in the entire universe, which I cannot begin to comprehend the vastness of. And then to consider where I fit into that picture. Wow!

And yet, for the very brief time that I exist on this planet, I have purpose.

It is going to be an excellent day... a few private lessons, a lunch date with a friend, a meander though a bookstore with a gift card to burn, and a little holiday shopping. Hopefully, tonight I will get back to work in the living room. I want to have that room done by Christmas! We're supposed to host a party on Dec 2. I don't think that it will be finished by then...still have painting to do, floors to do a final sanding on and to polyurethane, and get some trim work back up. I'll conquer the redesign of the fireplace mantel and surround after the holidays -- I'd like to see copper tiles around it! Maybe a Christmas miracle will happen!