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Good Morning, Human Friend.
Expanding Awareness — Embracing Life
It is 3 am. I chose to leave my dream and woke myself up just a moment ago. Going back in is no option. And starting the day is none as well. I decide that it is just a bit too early to get up. That is why I wallow in a state of thinking and expanding my awareness from my smallest cell all the way out into the world.
Johann has mice now, that is my first thought. Last week I spent in Hamburg with my friend, her son bought four “color mice” (the domesticated form of a house mouse). The idea was the attempt of parents to allow their child to get another access to “care”, “empathy” and “communication”. That is what pets are for, I remember my friend saying. By now, a week later, the mouse scent has occupied the whole apartment and the sleep of Johann is distracted by mouse-sounds.
I expand my awareness towards Hamburg. And I embrace Johann from here. And the mice. And his parents. And their surroundings. I am Johann. I am the mice…
My sleep has been distracted as well. I yawn. My jaw feels stiff, I juggle it from side to side and stretch my neck and limbs a little with it, sensing inside of me. Eyes closed, a smile whizzes by my lips.
My lips. They make me think of my son. Last time they touched his forehead, has been quite a while ago…
