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Only a daydream away. . .
Posted Wednesday, August 5, 2009, at 7:42 AM
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It's a rainy dark Tuesday afternoon. My cell phone is broken, my husband gone to Florida for a conference, the grandkids are visiting the "other" grands and I'm bored.

I have that restless feeling that comes when you find yourself needing an adventure or two to liven up your life. I don't have any planned and with my son heading off to college next week, I can't really afford to go to any of the places I would rather be.

So, I'm sitting here picturing myself in completely different surroundings. With mountain peaks and the babble of a cold, clear stream lazily flowing down the mountainside.

I'm seeing myself sitting in a comfy rocking chair on a delightful railed porch attached to a gorgeous log cabin (complete with an indoor Jacuzzi).

I can smell lilacs in the air and there is a crispness beginning to creep in. (I know, I know those are two very different seasons but it is my daydream so I can have anything I want in it).

On the back deck my husband is fixing steaks with baked potatoes and he brings me a perfectly stirred amaretto sour. He hands it to me with a smile and the quick brush of a kiss across my forehead.

A soft breeze begins to blow as the sun slides behind the mountainside. I'm starting to feel that wonderfully relaxed sense you get at the end of a day spent hiking up and down heavily forested paths drinking in the beauty all around. I catch a fleeting glimpse of a few deer darting by and can hear the chatter of squirrels in the treetops.

Then the phone at my desk rings and I am back to my reality.

Still, I know that (to quote Scarlett)tomorrow is another day and my escape is only a daydream away.


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In these hard times we didn't get to go any where this year. I day dreamed my vacation, it was a perfect one because I didn't have the traffic nightmares to deal with or the terrible odor coming from the back seat from the boys.

-- Posted by mad-mom on Sat, Aug 8, 2009, at 9:11 AM


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Maribeth Ward began working for a community newspaper right out of college. Within a few years she moved to marketing and spent most of her working life as a marketing manager. In 2006 she came back to her first love--writing. She attended Indiana University and is the mother of three--identical twin daughters and a son. She is also the Nana of three wonderful grandchildren--Matt, Riley and Emma. She and her husband Faril share their home with their cat Sunny and dog Roadie.
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