Day 264

Her messy desk this morning.

Even though she only had to be at school by 11am today, it was still a mad rush and suddenly the time was 10.15 and she hadn't left yet! 

The bed had been too comfy, sleep too inviting.  Then her morning tea, sweetened with honey and cooled down with milk, had been so delicious that she had had to sit and savour it.  Outside the sun had beckoned, the birds had needed feeding, the black dog had made a request for her to throw a yellow ball in the meadow, the piggie had required dandelion leaves, her favourite food at the moment, which are becoming scarce since her husband mowed down her constant supply in the overgrown lawn. 

The ancient cat had miaowed for a good old neck and ear-scratch, and after that for her vitamin-enriched treats, which she takes so carefully from the woman's fingers, one at a time, so sweetly.  All the indoor plants had suddenly decided that now was the time when they needed watering, they absolutely could not wait until the evening.  The washing in the drier had mumbled something which sounded like "...folding" although that had been something she could easily ignore, not being a living being, and therefore not as needy.

She made a colour-wheel for her grade 7 classes, who are doing beautiful graduated abstract watercolour paintings inspired by Paul Klee, and then tonight she drew a man and a woman arched around the wheel, holding one another by the feet, like elephants with their tails, spinning around the colourful world.