just a tidbit...

honestly, i left that last post up way too long. and if that is your only contact with me, then the thinking would be i have been in a long, downward spiral now for a week or however long it has been there. this is simply not the case.

so, to banish that post to the back burner and move on to other things, i offer this short insight:

i love my wife's face when she is rinsing the conditioner out of her hair in the shower. maybe it is the way she closes her eyes, maybe it is the angle that i look down on her while she does it, maybe it is the steam cloud that surrounds us.

maybe it is the simple peace that makes her face glow; as if in this one split second, there is no care. as if nothing preoccupies her mind except washing every last drop of conditioner out and feeling the long wet hank of her hair trail down her naked back.

brief as it is; as infrequent as the chances to observe this moment have been since having children; as quickly as we shift from that one sunkissed second back to worries and cares and the grit and grime of the day to day creeps back in like vaseline smeared on a camera lens; i always have these moments to hold onto.

darth sardonic