078: 107.7 THE EAGLE

Thank you, Lynyrd Skynyrd

Yesterday morning we needed a break.

I had yet to make my morning coffee, and I was trying to justify the $7 to go get a latte out of the house

and maybe, if I’m telling secrets now, to break up the time before his morning nap, so I didn’t have to play with magnetic blocks or a shaker egg again.

After a few minutes of some discontent tears, from who? Who? Us? Both?, I loaded us into the car, half-presentedly dressed, and ready to go get my morning coffee.

Sitting in the driveway waiting for the windshield to defrost, yesterday’s warm front already come and gone,
I tried to figure out what I wanted to listen to.

The audiobook I’m working through on parenting? Definitely not.
The artist who has been on repeat in our house lately? Ehh, not feeling it.
The playlist that would’ve probably fit the morning? I don’t feel like skipping stuff.

So I turned on the radio.

107.7 THE EAGLE

He was crying, and I was
about to. We needed to go for
a drive. Something about a drive
that de-escalates everything, what is it?

I turned the radio on, I’m not sure
why, I never listen to the radio anymore, but classic rock
seemed like a fine choice for the morning, hoping
for something not already on my playlist.

At the highest point of the expressway,
the ramp that sometimes scares me
if I think too much about it, proved
the horizon looking as an
old painting hiding away in an attic,

waiting to be dusted, held, or
maybe just found again, to be
appreciated, or just plain noticed.
Blue-gray bony trees met a dusty-rose spring pink
of a waking sky. A simple sight

moving around, dusted,
while my son slept in the back seat
to the lullabies of Lynyrd Skynyrd
and Guns N’ Roses.

Took my stab at a watercolor…only sharing because this is a safe space (right?) and I have nothing else to share as the artwork for this week except for this. Yes, I will stick to photography. Not sure why the scan is compressing it also, so here we are.

When was the last time you put on the radio?

and didn’t switch stations during the commercials?

and listened to the corny radio shows?

Turn on the radio sometime today and notice what is new around you that you can see now.

Until next time,
Madeline