storms

i'm watching paulie and sparky sleep....paulie works in the thunder and lightning at the top of giant stadium. sparky shakes and hides in the tub when the storms come. i don't do either. i like to watch the storm from someplace safe because i'm not afraid but i'm not looking for trouble.

this morning's storm was trouble anyway, whether i was looking for it or not. sparky shook and wouldn't stay without us. we ended up taking him to nonna's so he wouldn't be alone. we didn't have much of a choice, since he squirmed out the front door and wouldn't come inside. he stood by the car.

i left my car window open and the seat got wet when the storm came, so i sang at a funeral this moring with a wet behind. the air was on in the church, so wet became freezing, and i was very cold, although not as cold as the guest of honor, no disrespect meant.
the cold made it hard to sing, especially 'be not afraid' which isn't my favorite anyway, and the cold and the morning made it hard to concentrate.

i was distracted by thoughts of my shaking dog and my mother watching him and whether or not he was peeing on her rug.

once at a funeral someone's pants fell down on the way up to communion. once we had clowns. sometime's we have bagpipes. today the candles wouldn't stay lit.

it's always something. sometimes we do laugh (discretely, of course).

sometimes we cry, though. today we did, because he had kids. but the kids weren't crying, they were very brave, and were weathering that particular storm very well at that moment, although i'm sure there will be a time when they shake and won't be comforted.

like sparky when it thunders.

sparky will sleep good tonight, not like last night when he shook on the floor on paulie's side of the bed. sometimes i pet him and try to send good 'energy' like caesar says. sometimes i let him shake, but i never sleep when he shakes. paulie sleeps and that's a good thing, because you need you're wits about you when you work in the thunder and lightning at the top of giant stadium, and its suppose to rain again tomorrow. but not tonight. we'll all sleep good tonight, i think.

for now there are no storms.