Perpetual Ruminations

My Brain Needs a Channel Selector

It's after eleven here, so still Wednesday, but I likely won't get this entry done until after midnight. My youngest is still awake, watching the tail end of her television show. Her mood is pretty good, but she had a friend over and her excitement is still up. We talked a bit just a few minutes ago, and in about fifteen to twenty minutes, she will turn the tv off and try to sleep.

It would be nice if I could get lost here in some writing, but the tv is a distraction; I like it, no, I need it quiet and without interruption to get lost in my mind and let the writing flow. So, until then, I'm writing a little, but without being able to put my full attention on what I'm typing out. Oh, how I wish, sometimes, that I could shut things out and just get lost in my writing, oblivious to anything else.

My brain seems to never shut off, except when I'm lost in my writing. But even then, I need it quiet and uninterrupted or I get pulled back into reality and all those thoughts start pushing in. If only I had a channel selection knob that I could turn to the desired channel, be it writing, adulting, or going to sleep.