Mom told me to go plant some trees, I was annoyed...

3/12/10

Mom told me to go plant some trees. I was annoyed, I'll admit. I was perfectly comfortable, sitting in front of the computer doing biology. About to move on to Logic.

"Why go outside? There's been no planning for this "tree planting day". It stormed last night almost as hard as it did the time Zeus caught Poseidon with his wives. And I didn't sleep. I have no idea where to plant them, we don't have any nice soil on hand to fill the holes in. Why tell me this in the middle of the day, when its going to take up the rest of my day?!" i thought to myself.

I went. Kinda grumbling to myself. Changed, put in Coldplay. Grabbed a shovel, and went. I dug all the holes, and wasn't really annoyed anymore. It was kinda nice, kinda fun. Stuff spun around in my head. But it worked better, (my head that is) maybe cause of the fresh air.

By the time i was done, i was annoyed again. Stuff was that spun around was now stuck in my head, now confusing me. I stumped to the swampy marsh at the bottom of our property. To wash my shovel. Its gray, heavy, and overcast. I toss the shovel out, pull it back, wipe it on the reeds. Then Mr. Coldplay says it,

"Swimming on a sea of faces
Tired of the human races,
Oh, an answer now is what I need...
I see it in the new sun rise and
See it break on your horizon
Oh come on love stay with me..."

And plunk. A hail lands on my ear.
"Ow!" i glance up,
"papapapap...." And it starts. All around me.
It was profound. I sat. And stopped. Everything. stopped thinking, stopped washing the dumb shovel, stopped shouting at Sadie for running off chasing something in the swamp, and sat.

There wasn't really enough hail to cover the ground, just made it look sprinkled over the grass. But they were big hails. I sat there, listening to Coldplay, and popped a hail in my mouth. Sat there for quite a while, watching hail plop into the babbling creek, watching the now clear, cold pools in the swamp ripple from the impact cause by the balls of ice from above.

I sat, and I Wondered in Awe.