*editors note: you can type all you want in the morning but if you don't hit publish it didn't happen.
As I sit here looking out at the red orange morning created by the wildfires my mind, shockingly, began to wander. When I say wander I really mean reverts back to its default state of noticing, recording, and making connections. One of those happened to be the thought "I really miss the blue skies around here" which lead to the thought "I wonder why the sky doesn't look more purple because blue and red make that color" which lead to "Holy shit! did that little genius predict the future?!"
I am speaking of course about the artist only known to me as Prince and his iconic song Purple Rain. If he did, I need to stop this thinking right now. I might have mentioned before that I'm convinced that I come from a long line of people who attack things that are different. I'm not proud of that fact I think its just a thing but it helps explain why the hint of supernatural powers scares me more than a bit. I'm sure future humans will discover things that bring them closer to an understanding of our connections to this planet, our environment, and time... but that aint now and it aint me.
Plus, it's a coin flip if we manage to get our shit together and start taking care of the world we've been given before some cosmic force decided to hit the flush lever and start over. Wow, I am deeper than normal today and that is brought to us by the good people at Hung-Over. I awoke with a thundering headache in a red-orange room wearing my clothes from last night. I was so hot that I briefly considered an ice bath but quickly realized that I had just slept in jeans and immediate depantsing was the only requirement.
Anyway, back to the violet warlock. I made another slight tactical error this morning by asking my nemesis Siri to play the aforementioned song and the volume was set to eardrum danger levels which didn't help the aching brain at all. I had convinced myself that he mentioned something about a red or orange sky but upon further review I think my head was trying every trick to get me up to begin the rehydration process. Alternating water and Diet Coke has helped so when I went to retrieve that earlier thought my mind said "oh that, I was just bullshitting to get your fat ass off the couch. never mind"
and yet another rabbit hole collapses in front of my eyes but this time due to a purple rain storm.