Everything In Its Right Place
Just a bit of gratitude on yet another sunny day
Life on my block is a lot quieter this week now that the diner is out of its first blush of opening. I’m looking out my window, typing up this Substack, and it’s peaceful outside. No lines. No protestors. Lots of security.
It’s comforting to look outside the window, dirty though it may be, don’t judge, I do have Windex but being on the balcony, cleaning the windows, makes me woozy. The heights, it comes at you. But being inside, I am solid.
I’m feeling that way, overall and in general. I’m happy about being here, I’m happy I’m seeing my kid in person, I’m happy I have a bed to sleep in.
Sometimes my bed is filled with puppies. Julie, my one and a half year old Aussiedoodle, and now Drizzle, who is just five months old. Julie is mostly adjusted, with some recent flare-ups in her personality, such as barking at dogs and people who enter the elevator. Drizzle is still learning to hold his bladder, uses puppy wee wee pads, sometimes misses. His recent quirk is that he will eat poop, sometimes even, his own. Drizzle is my daughter’s puppy, and already, he and Julie have bonded. He spends most week/work days with us during the day. On occasion, he sleeps over.
I have long had dogs as my companions. I’ll devote a future Substack to them, but for now, I have my hands filled with frequent walks, cleaning up “accidents,” feeding the dogs in separate spaces in my apartment. When we get into the bed, Drizzle nuzzles into the crook of my elbow on one side of my body, and Julie drapes herself across the bed on the other side. One of them snores. It’s heavenly.
I bring them up because they are part of what solidifies the happiness of having arrived somewhere. It’s like that Radiohead song goes, “Everything In Its Right Place,” and that’s how I’m feeling about things right about nowl
Soundtrack while writing this post (iPod shuffle, no editing)
“Baby, I’m A Star” by Prince
“Apocalypse Dreams” by Tame Impala
“Without Words” by Ray LaMontagne
“Getting Better” by The Wedding Present
“Under Cover of Darkness” by The Strokes
“Resistance” by Muse
“The Real Slim Shady” by Eminem
“Regina Holing Hands” by White Denim
“Razzmatazz “ by Pulp