it's the whispers of the wind

Today was an amazingly beautiful day. I spent most of it outside. Even though it was a late a start, my inner alarm clock went off at 7:15 and I didn't really go back to sleep after that. I walked to school and it was raining, but I enjoyed the walk. One lady, probably in her 30's stopped and asked if I wanted a ride, the thoughts of kidnapping made me think twice anyway, but I was surprised by her genuine act of kindness. Zainab and I took a stroll down tenth line, and I don't know at what point we even decided to take a walk, but we kept walking down, for at least an hour, and then turned around. It was a really nice walk, away from school, away from people, away from cookie cutter houses. Then I spent lunch painting, just me and the radio in the room. And I did that yesterday at lunch too, and I love doing that, it offers me a balance with the hustle of the day. And I haven't painted in a while, so it feels really good. I lost track of time, and ended up being a little late for third period. Which was with Mistry, good as usual. We talked about Christian pluralism. And then Rabita and I went out to the benches then the park. It was really windy. Then after school I had a VisualArtsBoard meeting, and I was carving linoleum which will be used to make the invitations for Arts banquet. I stabbed my already chopped thumb (a couple of days ago, I was shredding cabbage for coleslaw and chunks of my skin went into the salad, that's what made it taste so good =] ) Tolton and I spent at least an hour talking about life in general. And her pregnancy. And then I met with Rabita/Zainab/Preeti who were working on the newspaper, we hung out for a little while and then I headed for my walk home. It felt so good to be outside, and just spend time with people I like.