he leaps

July 27, 2007 | Filed Under ordinary 

tireless, we send them in laps around the circle in the house, through the kitchen, the study, the dining room, the living room, the hall, and back into the bedroom where the adults read books and use a timer, calling out in cheers to keep them moving.  they race backwards, crawling, in slow motion, speedy and screaming.  they still burst in sparkler fountains and should be entered in triathlons for the energetic and young.

today we head to the zoo, where jude fears the unfolding of leathered bat wings and they both want pacing lions, large paws and manes, curling lips.  i hope for a breeze and a lazy sunshine, but know better.  hermit that i prefer to be, i make myself do these things, to leave the house, to converse with real people, to be busy about town.  i can’t decide whether or not to wear the new! shoes! for my birthday! (thanks, mom!) for this excursion but even in my indecision i know that i won’t because they’re new! and the zoo doesn’t seem like a good starting point for shoes of new.

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