things about me.
To those who care (and to those who don't, but will read anyway):
1. Before I wake up, I nuzzle into my pillow, squinting my eyes, unwilling to allow the sunlight peel them apart. But when I am ready to face the world, I love cracking my back like a dog--dipping my belly, lifting my tush, making my back into an uninterrupted arc, while splaying my hands in front of me, allowing the fingers to press against the mattress. It's one of the best possible ways of waking up.
2. Tea.
makes.
me.
happy.
It's the sugar really that sets me up for the day. When the first drizzle of monsoon hits the ground, I rush to the kitchen to start the burner. There is something about having chai while watching water languorously slide down a glass window.
3. I fell in love with a boy while being visited by an owl in a garden. I had never physically seen an owl before that moment. And never since.
4. I lost my two front teeth while trying to gain my momentum on a swing. I was five and competing with a girl who had two pigtails and a crooked nose. As the excitement escalated, so did my speed and before I knew it, I had slipped and nosedived into the gravel. I took the teeth home and hoped for the tooth fairy to visit me. While my brother was seven and already growing skeptical of the tooth-fairy, we decided that if she did visit, we'd pack her into an old shoe box and never let her go. Maybe it was her sixth-sense or maybe she lost the way to our home, but she never showed up.
Perhaps some other kids caught her in a shoe box.
***
To those who care (and to those who don't, but will read anyway):
1. Before I wake up, I nuzzle into my pillow, squinting my eyes, unwilling to allow the sunlight peel them apart. But when I am ready to face the world, I love cracking my back like a dog--dipping my belly, lifting my tush, making my back into an uninterrupted arc, while splaying my hands in front of me, allowing the fingers to press against the mattress. It's one of the best possible ways of waking up.
2. Tea.
makes.
me.
happy.
It's the sugar really that sets me up for the day. When the first drizzle of monsoon hits the ground, I rush to the kitchen to start the burner. There is something about having chai while watching water languorously slide down a glass window.
3. I fell in love with a boy while being visited by an owl in a garden. I had never physically seen an owl before that moment. And never since.
4. I lost my two front teeth while trying to gain my momentum on a swing. I was five and competing with a girl who had two pigtails and a crooked nose. As the excitement escalated, so did my speed and before I knew it, I had slipped and nosedived into the gravel. I took the teeth home and hoped for the tooth fairy to visit me. While my brother was seven and already growing skeptical of the tooth-fairy, we decided that if she did visit, we'd pack her into an old shoe box and never let her go. Maybe it was her sixth-sense or maybe she lost the way to our home, but she never showed up.
Perhaps some other kids caught her in a shoe box.
***
