Q: How do you make a Lotad evolve?
A: Chunk it down a well. (At least until the ASPCA gets involved.)*

Didja ever have that ache--y'know, the one where you want something and you can't have it, or you have to wait a long time for it. And not in the dirty way, either. The ache just sorta seizes your heart and y'kinda feel it pulse in your spirit for a split second--you almost want to cry and you can't because you almost can't breathe--and then the ache just sorta dulls for a bit.

Crazy as it sounds, and I know it is, I ache that way for, well, Heaven. The place that isn't like this one. And before you start freaking out, no, I'm not being all depressed--this has been something I always thought about. The place where negative emotions are gone, positive ones are beyond extreme (yes, that's a good thing), and everything and everyone is perfect. Despite what society says, I believe such a place exists; that, contrary to some story-telling, we aren't meant to have anger, hate, sorrow, outcasting, and violence in our lives forever.

The ache will pulse every time I heard a strain of beautiful music or see art that is beyond words. And almost, for a very split moment, I can feel Heaven; that promise that this place and time aren't my final ones. That I don't, thank God, have to live up to society's expectations, which are far different from mine. The best house, the most expensive car, the highest paying job--because, after all, you can't take any of it with you.

Sorry--went a little *random on you there. Just felt compelled to write. And waiting patiently till I can go Home.

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Meanwhile, if y'all hadn't been so caught up in defining Harry Potter as the newest fad, I would've read it sooner!! If someone had just said, "Wow, JK Rowling is the next Travers or Dahl!", then...well shoot, I'd be reading it so much sooner. Thankfully, since I waited so long, I get to enjoy (re: gorge) myself on that much more Potter that much more sooner. Hee hee.

Devoured Year One in less than a day (job and sleep, y'know).
Devoured Year Two the same way.
Saving money to get the next couple of books. Certified Rowling nut #1,458,019.

*Mild expletive*, it's good to be reading again. ^_______^

BTW, someone wish me a happy birthday already! I'm turning...*gulp*...a quarter century this Friday. Heh, but growing up and growing older are two different things. Break out the CCEBs already!

And Beloved, I miss you terribly and wonderfully so.

*wa-POOF!* And off I go!