What I did today

Well, I woke up hungover, went to work, mowed the lawn, sprayed the weeds so far.  Not a modicum of novelty in any of that.  However, I did do one thing I haven't done in probably 25 years:

I caught a grasshopper with my bare hands.

I startled her while I was walking around the yard spraying.  She jump-flew up on my burning bush...it's the one that refuses to either grow or die.  I very...carefully...cupped two hands together on either side of her.

When she kicked back with that unbelievable grasshopper force, I was startled...probably visibly so had anyone been watching me.  But it was not by the force itself, but rather how it instantaneously teleported me back in time to when I was eight years old.  That kicking...both powerful and gentle at the same time teemed together with the smell of the freshly cut grass just went straight to my id and smiled.  Had an ice cream truck had tinkled and chimed by, I think I probably would have broken down and cried right in the side yard.

I feel like a kid trapped in a 34 year olds body quite a often, but never more so than today.