Bill’s words: music, island & earth

Not another sound on this cool crisp dawn, other than birds chirping, fish popping and MUSIC playing on his phone. Bill comes here three or four times a week to be alone in his thoughts. He’s really not a fisherman, often he doesn’t bring a fishing pole and when he does he hardly ever uses it. The point of this time is being still on the EARTH as it spins on it’s axis.
Most of his thoughts are of his wife and their little farm, that’s their sanctuary and they love it. He also gives brief thoughts to yesterday’s ups and downs, before preparing and heading to work for the daily grind.
Next week they’re taking a vacation to Hawaii. This is something they hardly ever do. Not because they can’t afford it, because they can. They just love home, however they feel they need a break from their friend Jim. Jim’s a nice guy, but he always seems to be there. He’s always trying to talk them into these crazy little adventures. This adventure is theirs and it will be without him, on an ISLAND far, far away from him.

Judy’s words: bookcase, Christmas & sandwich

    With breakfast in her stomach Judy headed towards work. Working in the little town of Sloan has it’s benefits, it’s close to home and it’s a small Mayberry type of town. Close enough that she can walk to work if she wants too. She’s lucky enough to live on a dead end street just outside of town, the few delivery trucks in town don’t have a reason to come down her street. That makes for a very peaceful neighborhood.

    She works at a quaint little book store on main street. Feeling a little hugry, she closed up shop for lunch and headed across the street to the diner. “Hi Betty,” she said to the waitress as she sat down by the window.

    “Hi Judy. Do you know what you want?” handing her a menu.

    “Yes I do. Surprise me with the soup of the day, a SANDWICH and a water with lemon.” handing back the menu. “Ham and cheese please.”

    “Comin’ right up dear.”

    This is her favorite time of year: with snow on the ground, the crisp cold freshness in the air and of course CHRISTMAS decorations that light up the night sky. During the relaxing stroll home after work, she realised she made it all the way to her den and didn’t remember taking a step. She found herself standing in front of her favorite place, her BOOKCASE. She knows her next adventure sits on one of these selves.

Wally’s words: seismic, barren and tomato

    He was surprised to find a TOMATO in such a BARREN place. He stopped, as he often does, to take a picture of some impressive scenery. This one was of a very symmetrical barn in a desert field. Nothing else was around except for a lonely tomato plant, sand, blacktop and sunshine. As he did a three sixty he could see mountains far off in all directions. With the heat rising from the sand it gave the mountains an erie wavy look.

    It was another twenty or so miles, before he saw anything other than scorching blacktop or steaming sand. It was a gas station. He was so grateful for his airconditioner, he thought giving his car a rest wouldn’t hurt. Might as well top off the tank and visit the mens room, while he had the chance.

    Inside, he paid for the gas, a soda and some chips, then said to the store keeper, “hot today.”

    The store keep replied, “oh it’s nice today. You should have been here last week, now that was hot.”

    “Hotter than this. Oh my, I’m glad I wasn’t here.” Wally sat down, then felt the ground shake. “What was that?”

    “Oh that. That’s just a little tremor, we always have SEISMIC activity out here all the time.”

    “Well, I don’t like it. Think I’ll leave.”

Jamie’s words: Sushi, button and headstrong

    Jamie and his daughter were heading into a three story building in downtown Wilson yesterday, when they saw something that gave them both a little pleasure. It was the revolving and it didn’t but a second till she ran into it. Seems like she went around a dozen times, while Jamie looked on smiling. He thought, she’s got to get tired sooner or later.

     Little Susie was such an average two year old, she had the greatest smile, that I’m sure she got from her pop pop. Of course she was full of energy, just like most two year olds.

    Finally out of the door through the foyer and in the elevator Susie asked, “can I push it daddy?”

    “Of course you can.”

    “Which BUTTON daddy?”

    Pointing he said, “this one honey.”

    She tried and tried to push it, but she was just too short. Only an inch more and she could reach it. “Here let me Susie.”

    “No I can do it.” She started jumping around and just happened to step on daddy’s foot, as she was standing on his feet she realised that was the inch she needed. So she pushed it and turned to daddy with the biggest grin. Jamie thought she never would have been able to do it, if she wasn’t so HEADSTRONG.

    Leaving town, they picked up momma and went to their favorite fishing hole. Susie and momma weren’t much on fishing, but this was one of Jamie’s favorite things to do.  Fishing with his family made the experience even better.

     The girls didn’t fish, but Jamie did and he started pulling them in left and right. Literally didn’t matter which side he cast to, he pulled in a fish. Momma said, “you want to take them home or start a fire here and a cook a couple here or do you want to eat one raw, so you can have your daily SUSHI fix?”