Sunday Stealing

Sunday Stealing

1. Do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed?

A. The closet door is open. It's a walk-in closet and the door always stays open because one of the heat registers is in there.

2. Do you have freckles?

A. I do not. My mother, however, had lots of freckles. She used to tell this story on herself - when she was very young, someone told her that early morning dew would remove freckles. So every morning for an entire summer, she woke before everyone else and went outside and rubbed her face in the grass. I think my grandmother finally put a stop to that.

3. Can you whistle?

A. I can. Some days I do it better than others.

4. What is the name of the last song you listened to?

A. Comfortably Numb, by Pink Floyd

5. Name something that relaxes you.

A. Reading.

6. What sounds are your favorite?

A. My husband's voice, along with my brother's voice and my father's, bird noises, train sounds, guitar music, my friends' voices, the whisper of the breeze through a fully-grown hayfield, the chit-chit of the squirrels, the low of the cattle, the click of a camera, and the peck-peck of my fingers on the computer keyboard.

7. What do you wear to bed?

A. I wear a nightgown.

8. Do you sing in the shower?

A. This morning I let loose with a rousing rendition of American Pie, every verse and chorus. It was a long shower.

9. What books are you reading?

A. I am reading a Stuart Woods book. I have been binge-reading his books since the first of the year, with a few "literary" reads in between. I am also reading the Bible every day.

10. Do you believe in magic?

A. In a young girl's heart? Of course. Magic is everywhere. It is in the wink of the sun through the clouds, in the flowering daffodils, in the silence of the house when no one is home. Magic lives in all of us, some of simply call it by different names. What is prayer but an incantation?

11. Can you curl your tongue?

A. I can.

12. Have you ever caught a butterfly?

A. Yes. I always let them go. When we were children, we were cruel to June bugs. We would catch them and tie a string around their leg and then fly them around in circles. We also caught lightning bugs in jars. No one told us we shouldn't do that. I would never do that now, and as I aged I realized it was not a nice thing to do to bugs.

13. Name one movie that made you cry.

A. The Rose.

14. Do you prefer peanuts or sunflower seeds?

A. Sunflower seeds. 

15. Are you a heavy sleeper?

A. I am not. I wake easily in the night. Sometimes the ice maker dumping in the kitchen will wake me. I think I sleep heavier than I used to, though, now that my husband is home every night. When he worked the 24-hour shifts at the fire station, I don't think I slept as well when he was not at home.

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