May 27th 2010

Today is May 27th, 2010. I am sitting on a couch that isn't mine. It is 80 degrees outside, and summer is starting to begin to boil. I started working a grounds and landscaping job this past week. Eight hours a day, two fifteen-minute breaks, and one half hour lunch break. Manual labor for 7 hours. The physicalness of the work gives way to a trance inspiring pace of the job. I am lulled by engines, gasoline, grass, mulch, and hoses into a state of sunburned contemplation. I have lost my self in the labor. I am soaking in the summer; the heat, the humid mornings, the sweat, the smell of grass clippings. I am stewing in it all. I am beginning to feel a rebirth. A rebirth facilitated by the physicalness of the season.