You may know what it's like ... when your best friend has been informed by her husband that he wants a divorce ... you watch her crumble, you hold on to the pieces ... trying frantically to put them back into place and keep her sane and on track (all the while inside you yourself are an emotional wreck) .. then you attend a funeral service for the father on another good friend, while she and her family weep with pure misery.
and all the while I have a million things undone, and three intense days ahead at work ... and I want to sleep ~ but it's September 11th and I wonder why how this existence ~ even this world is in the state it is in.
Life seems to be almost too hard for anyone to manage well, the news today indicates that this war will go on and on and on ... poverty and slum lords on tonights news ... my former boss has "given in" to his battle with cancer and stopped his chemo ...
If I could get up the courage to go to bed, I am afraid I would not sleep (or perhaps I am afraid I would sleep and fear for my dreams).
Yet in the morning the alarm will go off, and I will wake Birding Girl Willa for another day of freshman High School ... and send her off with prayers for her day ... and for the world she is growing up to face.

Posted by sunybank at September 12, 2007 05:06 AM