I remember lying on the grass when I was little and watching the shapes the clouds made as they went by. Mississippi skies makes for some killer cloud watching. It was a very rare day to not have any clouds. Those days were noticed for sure.
Today as I floated in the pool, looking up at a vast amount of blue, I missed the skies of my childhood. I wanted to see monkeys (don't know why, but I always saw monkeys), whales and bears go floating by me today.
I wanted to think about riding my bike down to the Army Ditches, playing on swinging vines in the woods and not having to be home until the street lights came on. I wanted to smell summer smells like; mowed grass and wild onions, Daddy frying catfish and hush puppies under the car port and the sweet air coming though my window at night.
Blue skies are overhead and the future is wide open these days. I'm a grown up now, but I'm still looking for Monkeys in the sky.
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