Snakeskin Journey

My refrigerator is humming, the ceiling fan is slowly drawing the heated air from the roof pitch and cycling it down into the room.  The lamp beside me shines cheerfully, augmenting the light in the kitchen. Darkness approaches and all is calm.  In the other room, my computer rests after being used to do a fact check.  Earlier today I emptied the clean dishes from the dishwasher and between tasks completed a couple of loads of laundry.  Printed off an invoice for the business and entered some checks into the Quickbooks program.  An evenly paced day, not particularly noteworthy…except I had electrical power.

After our six day electrical outage this past week I’m still appreciative enough to notice all the little things that are made easier—and sometimes possible at all—because we have electricity.  This feeling will fade soon enough and I will be back to my dismissive expectation of how life should be.  But this day, I’m hearing the hum.