I go to the bathroom maybe three times a nite. I drink water every time I do, too. That's why three.

I stumble around in the dark hallways of many a hosts catsle, only to leave lasting scars in my shin or imagine many a strange object looming before me.

As soon as darkness decends upon the day, my lights do not come up, no, but the first sulfur stikings of some long ago chicago bar match book, the cheap kind with the camel sillouette (you know there is a pyramid in his pecker or something like that, right? I've seen it, tru dat). As soon as darkness decends upon the day, one candle wick lit. Another in the bathroom. Finally and suddenly, too dark, as if a slow blind fold was being pulled gently, persuasively, imperceptably around your eyes, a dozen more tea lights, votives, and pillars - all in safe glass holders, all beaming like Thursday morning, my favorite morning every time.

Merry Thursday and a happy new something. Gosh bless us, everydamnone.

All my life I have wandered around this house in Michigan . The one my father built, while my mother and I were living in it - with his bare hands. Mostly by himself. I feel protected, safe, identified, cared for inside my father's house. And I walk through rooms, long after everyone else has gone to bed, listening to moaning floor direct me through black halls, around half open doors and oddly shaped octagon angles and levels and how could anyone who grew up living in square boxes with vinyl siding and dry wall for support, constructed by someone other than your father - how could anyone feel at home in that?

A part. Welcomed. Unconditional. Safe.

Question: What criteria should be employed when dertimining the safety of a candle?
Answer: A candle is safer and burns considerably longer, if wax is collected, instead od allowed to drip, for reuptake by the flaming wick. A candle is very safe if I fall asleep forgetting to blow it out, and no cat, no child, no housemate could possibly knock it down.

I always say: "turn on the fan and blow the candles out".

Yes, yes. Did I mention I love wandering around in the dark.

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