Late Night Ramblings...

Every few months or so, I go on this late night binge.  I stay up later and later for days until I can't do it anymore.  Then I have a headache and then I start to be normal again.  Tonight is a late night.  Everyone is in bed already.  I am listening to the sounds.  There was a train horn off in the distance.  The dryer is making it's noise.  The heat just came on.  The dogs are barking, probably at a possum.  I heard a window creak.  there is something else...oh yeah, it's silence.  Wow!  It doesn't happen, but every so often it is nice to hear the sound of nothing.  Sometimes it is cool to just watch someone you love sleeping.  Sometimes the children.  They look so innocent like that and I wonder at how fast they have grown.  I think about how they will be gone before I know it.  What will they look like then.  I hear their deep regular breathing patterns and  think about how much I will miss them, but I also look forward to seeing what and who they become.  I say a little prayer for each of them.  A bit philosophical.  The heat just turned off.  It really has quite a hum.  Now there isn't much sound.  I see some books I would like to read.  Should have been doing that rather than surfing.  The dogs have stopped barking.   Guess the possum ran off.  My eyes are getting heavy, after all it has been a long day.   I think I hear something....it is my pillow beckoning me to come and lay down.  My blanket may have spoken as well and I am off.  I used to think sleeping was a waste of time, now I know better.

G'night!