Storms on the Horizon

I sat out Spring Road late last night watching the last of yesterday’s storms roll in. There was a tangible electricity to the air as flashes of lightning lit up the dark horizon. Soon, you could hear the far off rumbles of thunder as the storms grew closer until a bright flash of lightning and deafening crack of thunder chased me back into the safe confines of my car.

Much of the country is getting snow and cold weather, old man winter’s last respite before spring. I long ago realized I lived in the Bermuda triangle of winter weather as we get none and when we do, it is a freak happenstance of maybe once a decade. It has been very warm here with our weather moderated by the Gulf of Mexico.

Earlier in the evening, I had gone out to eat with my mother and father the day before my birthday. We arrived home and I was walking out their backdoor as I and my father talked of the weather. He gets just as excited about the weather as I.

“The dew points are really high,” I said as I stood at their backdoor. “The humidity is so thick you feel as if you could cut it with a knife.”

“Stormy weather is on the way,” My father said being a harbinger of the adverse weather that would arrive later that evening. “You can feel it.”

I walked on home with an eye to the sky and settled in for a quiet evening of weather watching.

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It is 3:13am on the 12th of April, 2007. I am now officially 35 years old. I asked myself if I thought I would be where I am at, at this point in my life. I feel so old. The answer was that I am lucky and blessed. I don’t have to work some menial job to support myself. My schizophrenia has been under check lately. I have a new home that is completely paid for. I have a very nice Honda that is paid for. I have no debt. I have plenty of food, drinks, and smokes. I am sober and sometimes days do go by without me obsessing about having a couple of drinks. It will be a good start to what is the 35th year of the life of this simple man. I hope you all have a good day today and thanks for sharing in the past few years of this journey called life.

Andrew