12/11/2002

12/11/2002 - anytime

The night before last I had a desire. This was an odd return of an old habit. When I was a kid I would fall asleep with the radio on, probably to drown out the noises in the house or the racket in my head. And then the night before last. Laying on my stomach, I fished around in the dark for the dials. A couple of big red numbers later, the greatest hits from the 80's and 90's danced in my ears. Fastball was on, not 'the way', I think it was the B side. Beautiful. I shut off the tunes and set the clock back to alarm mode before sleeping.

Last night I found a jazz show on public radio. I left the radio on all night. D shut it off at 4:00am and set the alarm.

There was no noise in my head or in the house to drown out. Just a peaceful, contented landscape feeling that needed nothing else. The night time tunes were icing. So sweet you could pour them over ice cream.