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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 2 – Intermediate)
Topic: Summer (the season) (07/09/09)
Oh it is hot, and I forgot to put the glass of ice water by my bed again. Oh well, I’m too tired to get up again. Maybe I will have a good night, not wake up like I did last night, feeling like I was melting into the sheets. I adjusted the air conditioner a bit lower tonight. I miss when I didn’t have to set the air conditioner so high and on energy saver. God forgive me for complaining, I know this bad economy is affecting many others worse than me. I should be praying for those with no air conditioning at all. I wonder what percentage of the world has to sleep with summer’s vile breath tormenting them, its hot, saliva-humidity pouring over them without mercy, until their rooms reek with the scent of sweat. Just the thought of that makes me want my ice water, maybe even just a glass of ice! What! I can not believe that air conditioner went off on energy-save mode again so soon!

Maybe I should count the minutes to see how long the air conditioner stays off when on energy-rest. If too long, maybe I really should consider adjusting it again. Maybe I should give myself more leeway, let my body more slowly adjust to a higher sleeping temperature! I really don’t want to wake up again feeling like a hammer is whacking my head with a heated anvil and that summer has stuffed cotton in my mouth and I can’t breath. I do need to time it. But Nuts! I laid that fantasy book I was reading where it blocks the clock view. I really should get up and move that book. And if I do, I could get my ice water while I’m up. But, I’m so tired and …

…What was that sound - distant thunder? Oh, God, I hope not on a night as hot as this! Not with our touchy rural power! And if the electricity goes, I can already feel summer’s hot hand clutching me, holding me prisoner all night! Lord, I sure hope Heaven is not hot. Why would it be though, that’s for hell. And if I can’t handle even one miserable night of hot, I can hardly imagine the agony of hell’s blazing chambers! Hell’s horrors – just what I need to dwell on before going to sleep! Please God, keep my power on! Is that selfish to ask God? Only today, an online poet from Nigeria told me it is common for them to have no electric power, at all, for weeks. That would mean no air conditioning for weeks, nor even electric fan! Without electricity for freezers, maybe they even have no ice to make a glass of ice water for weeks too! God, I do take so much for granted living here in America. I need to just get up and get my ice water and appreciate - - ah, the air conditioner is on again. If only I had remembered that ice water before I came to bed…

… I am comfortable right now, maybe I can make it tonight without the ice water. It’s hard to move, even to get what you need, when you’re comfortable. If only I hadn’t forgotten – I’m getting kind of aggravated about my memory, it seems worse since summer’s arrival. That’s sort of scary. Maybe my brain cells are allergic to summer or they are simply draining to a lower, inactive place to stay cool and like the air conditioner – temporarily have themselves on energy saving mode. Sounds plausible to me God, but couldn’t hurt for you to touch my mind and memory anyway! And while you’re touching, I don’t have to tell you Lord, what a mess this world is right now! Pathetically so! Actually, you must think me pathetic lying here, fretting over my little need to beat summer’s heat, when so much of mankind; from so many nations; are lashing out at each other, acting like the worst of summer when she unleashes her devilish attacks, with fiery insane fury! World’s a mess this world indeed – and me…

…I’m up from my comfort place now Lord, my spirit burning with no desire for cool! Moving that blinding fantasy book - seeing - the clock approaching the mid-night hour! Oh God, I don’t need that ice water, I need YOU - for I truly, truly thirst!
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Laura Manley
07/16/09
This is very good! How often we complain when in essence, in comparison to others, we have nothing to complain about. Good read! Laura
Mildred Sheldon
07/18/09
I must admit that your story sometimes sounds like me. How we all need to be reminded that not all have the conviences we have and take forgranted until the power goes out. Thanks for sharing.
Seema Bagai
07/19/09
Excellent, realistic voice in this piece. Good work.
Janice Fitzpatrick
06/21/11
Wow, this is so good as it is full of the raw human emotion and thought. I liked your demonstration of the back and "forthness"-(if there such a word, grin), we often have. The going, between dwelling on the negative and discomforts of our state and then the coming back, to the times when we begin to think on the important and the needs of others, who face their own turmoil, or misfortune. You write so honestly from the heart. Keep on being a messenger.:)