Of the Moon...Or Lack Thereof...

Today I woke up at two. In the afternoon. If you know me at all you know that I am a hardcore morning person. Even on my days off. I hate the feeling of my day being wasted by sleeping through it. So you can imagine my horror when I awoke to the realization that I had slept my day away and that I had to be at work in two hours. I had beautiful plans for the day too. I was gonna work out, go to the grocery store, and get ahead on my homework. Instead, I had cold oatmeal and nutella on crackers since that is pretty much the extent of what's left in my kitchen. Healthy.

I don't feel as badly about sleeping in though, because last night was a great night and I wouldn't have missed it for the world. For one thing, after work I had a date with the one and only Jordan Brown, who is one of the coolest girls I've ever met. We went to this coffee shop called Jives that is open until 12ish but that's only if the owner feels like closing. Sometimes he's too busy jamming on his electric to notice the time. His coffee is better than anything I've ever experienced. He has ten kids, most of whom work for him. Dang, if my dad owned a shop like that I'd work there too. He has this really awesome espresso machine that is part manual and part automatic. And it's blue. Which I love. I was ashamed that all I had to do was push a button to pull a shot in my workplace.

It was open mic night, but I didn't quite have the guts to get up and play. Plus I was with Jordan, and I didn't want to put our date on hold while I went and performed.

The second thing that was great about last night was that the night itself was beautiful. The night sky in CO is kind of a blue green color, and last night was cloudy, so it added this grey tint that made the world look smokey and mysterious. It smelled like wet dirt...which may have actually been my soap mixed with coffee grounds, but for the sake of the mood we'll say it was wet earth.

There is something magical about the middle of the night. A loneliness and stillness that is yours and yours alone. I drove home on the freeway at forty-five miles per hour simply because I could. Mine was the only car on the road. Neko Case was in my CD player and I kept playing song number nine over and over again. There is a line there that says "don't let this fading summer pass you by" and I kept mulling it over. So often I don't care to enjoy things. My friend Chad says that human beings have a hard time just being.

I think Chad is right, just be. Stay up super late sometime just so you can see what the sky looks like. God put Adam and Eve on earth not so they could do great things for society, or have an awesome destiny, He just put them there to be. So they could enjoy what He made. So He could show someone His creation. And so maybe my purpose is to love that blue green of the night sky in CO. Or to sit in a giant field and watch fire flies. Or take a walk through Bidwell Park. To just be.