spiritual awakening

it's absolutely gorgeous outside today for this time of year in my location. it is sunny with blue skies in an area known for permagloom. i called the golf course to see if they were open, and of course they were. it's too nice a day not to be, especially for january. so i called up my friend to see if he wanted to go, but i just got his machine so i left a message. cuz of this we probably wouldnt make the available tee times anyway. but that wasnt going to ruin my day. my options were jumping on with a group i didnt know, or going to the driving range. the former didnt really seem like a good idea for the first time out of the year, so i went with the latter.

it was on the way to the range where i had my religious experience. i was driving along, happily singing along to some clarence carter ("i'm not just good, i'm the best"). traffic was steady, but moving. it's not a huge town anyway. but then it happened: about one minute before the golf course, i passed a church. i looked over, and in the parking lot was a mother, with her son. he was dressed up very nicely, in a shirt and tie, and some nice black pants. and then it hit me like a ton of bricks...

THANK GOD i'm not at church right now.

the driving range was great. i crushed the driver. you KNOW.