Peru

I'm going to a meeting about a trip to Peru! I'm going to Peru for spring break. The ancient civilizations and  food sound amazing. Oh to be in a faraway land, free from boundaries and baggage. To stand in the canopy and laugh a rich and exuberant laugh. I am aching to leave and fly away to Peru.

Love love love your favorite listener,
Carly

Nervous

I scratch my nose
My hands are fidgeting
My shoulder is itchy
The itches are scrambling down my arms
I rub and scratch them
My stomach flops over like an omelette on the stove
My insides churn through my whole body
I shake; and get even more itchy
My eyes twitch
I probably look like I'm going insane.
I'm nervous... so, so nervous


I have an audition today. Wish me luck? thanks.

Apple Tree

Can you remember a time, maybe 10 years ago, when we were young

On the farm, it was summertime

One hundred and five degrees

We sat in the shade next to a great pool of water

Up in the.... Apple Tree

Shared secrets, lopsided picnics, trips to the pond.

Everything somehow drove us back to the tree where it begun

Oh, we ran through the field, maybe fed the pigs, never ate the nasty preserved tomatoes

Blisters and fire ant bites coated our feet;

popped as we climbed the trunk

To pick that perfect ripe apple

A gorgeous red; a crunch when you popped it in your mouth

Lazily falling asleep in the branches.....

do you remember all those good times of that summer? How every night we somehow found our way into the pond. Butt-naked; 8 years old not caring at all

Somehow finding our way into the tree

giggling and laughing til we cried.

I think that tree still says 'Bffs forever'

I bet our folks still don't know it's there.

But I remember and it won't leave my mind

I hope it sticks in yours

like the apple seeds in our teeth

old times, oh the good times....

never forgotten

never changed

pure and sweet

in the apple tree.

Man vs. Mouse

My dad is fixing the dishwasher today. A mouse chewed through some fancy tube. He laughed and said 'I could write a whole blog entitled Man versus Mouse'.

He doesn't know I have a blog. But he had a funny story about it.

It was a giant fiasco about a mouse who was in a jealous rage and would not let anyone else help him chew. Sadly, my dad is covering the hole.

If you thought this was stupid; I agree. I just though it was funny enough to share.

Love love love your favorite listener,

Carly