Stardust

Some how she knew that you didn't get many moments like this in your life: moments when you knew, without any doubt, that you were alive, when you felt the air in your lungs and the wet grass beneath your feet and the cotton on your skin; moments when you were completely in the present, when neither past nor the future mattered. She tried to slow her breathing, hoping somehow to make this moment last forever.

- Neil Gaiman

Basket of Begonias

I peeked over the rim of the of the green plastic pot, and there hidden behind the waxy leaves were three little lives. Six round little eyes set on opposite sides of three tiny beaks stared back at me. Half-naked, flightless, new I felt priviledged to meet them, to silently appreciate this miracle hidden in a basket of begonias.

11:11:11...make a wish.

The monitor glared before me in the hum-drum surroundings of the warehouse where I work. The small clock changed times from 11:10 to 11:11. The hope swelled inside my heart while my brain told me what an idiot I had become to hope so hard. Ten seconds passed, and in the eleventh second my clock shown 11:11:11. I kissed my finger, pressed it to the screen and wished as hard as I could. By the time I got home for lunch my wish had come true.

I thought I was alone.

I was suddenly aware, my heart beat faster, there was a presence, a life larger than me, aware of me. She had been watching me amble clumsily down the path. I stopped searching, listening, but hearing nothing but the quiet buzz of the woods. Must have been my imagination. I stepped, and so did she. The leaves crunched beneath my feet, and then I heard them crunch beneath hers. My head turned, I stopped again. I looked around, the second I saw her she was gone. My eyes could not even focus. The blur of her light brown body and the white flash of her tail was all I ever saw.

Sunlight in the Shower

This morning as I sat on the tile floor of my shower the sunlight suddenly streamed in from my small round window, through the pebbled glass of my shower door and warmed my skin.