Bliss! For just about two hours today, I was entirely alone. Well, alone in the sense that I wasn’t with anyone I knew. The children were occupied in various places with various forms of supervision, and I took myself to Border’s, equipped with three (3! I counted) of my favorite pens (because there is little worse, on an outing of this kind, than being without a suitable writing implement), a notebook, my laptop, and my text for class.
I read, I wrote, I shopped (!), I listened to my iPod Shuffle (the desk clerk asked me what it was, BETH, and I told him, and he said he’d never seen one before and that they get smaller and smaller, and I think that that makes the iPod Shuffle cool, because not everyone recognizes them, so they are not as ubiquitous as the plain iPod. How ’bout them apples?), and I was All By Myself.
Thank you very much.
It made me think of a song that I am listening to frequently these days (not yet on my Shuffle) from a new c.d. at our house. It’s jazz musician Jamie Cullum, his c.d. is called Twentysomething, and if you haven’t heard him, try to.
I’m all at sea
where no one can bother me
Forgot my roots
if only for a day
Just me and my thoughts
sailing far away
You don’t need it everyday
But sometimes don’t you just crave
To disappear inside your mind
You never know what you might find
Like a wandering that seeps into my soul
Please just leave me right here on my own
Later on you could spend some time with me
if you want to, all at sea
Addendum: I decided that I must mention that I did have company for a short time this afternoon, and this was from dear tworivers. Did you ever notice, tworivers, that when we bloggers mention you, your name is often prefaced by “dear”? Why would that be, one wonders?
Anyway, I was so glad to have the company of tworivers, albeit briefly. It was a pleasure, adding to the idyll of my afternoon.
