My Time Machine (for Self Portrait Tuesday)
I am in here when I feel the least in control:
I am in here when I find out wheather I am early or late.
I am in here when it occurs to me that I have forgotten something at home or at the office.
I am in here when I figure out what to have for dinner later that day and if I have to stop at the grocery store.
I am in here when I find out the kids have to go somewhere in the next hour or two. (They usually wait until they get out of the truck to get on the bus in the mornings to tell me they have to be somewhere after school that day.)
I am in here when I feel the most in control:
- I can go fast.
- I can go slow.
- I can listen to BIG HAIR ROCK AND ROLL as loud as I want.
- I can listen to DWIGHT YOKUM as long as I want.
- I can have any kind of airfreshener I want.
These are my controls: Drive, Reverse, Neutral, Park, the radio dial, the cd changer, the steering wheel,the temprature controls, the gas gauge, and my cup holder with a cold drink or hot cup of coffee.
Everything that has happened to me in the PAST, flashes before my eyes across the windshield. Everything that I can imagine or dream about for the FUTURE, projects across the same screen.
I control that too, but sometimes I forget.
