SOULM8

why is it, no rather, how is it that one hour taken from me can feel like a time warp of epic proportions? how is that possible? i can't even count the number of times i've stayed up an hour too late or had to get up an hour too early - neither as debilitating as daylight savings.

and so tonight i'm stuck in the jetlag of a nation that sprung forward without me. (well, nearly an entire nation - there are some lucky, or rather, genius, renegade regions that don't participate in this cockamamie institution.)

for the first time in nearly a month (or maybe more than a month?) i considered taking something to wake me up today. instead i dozed, a bit with my eyes open and a bit with them shut. but i definitely dozed. i don't blame my narcolepsy. and i don't blame my psyche taking a handy exit. i simply blame daylight savings.

and while i was wheeling around town today foggy-eyed, i think the gods took advantage of my vulnerable state to pass along some words of synchronistic encouragement. i was on the phone with my relationship-end-stage-friend and feeling incredibly grateful for haley and the love we've found in each other; when haley pointed to the tag on the motorcycle in front of us: SOULM8.

we looked at each other and then back at the tag and the woman riding the motorcycle. her jacket had a name embroidered on the back: "Hailey".

yes, yes, i do agree.

(on second glance we noticed that the woman's long frizzy hair was obscuring the r and the jacket really said 'Harley'. but whatever.. that's not what we were meant to read.)

and then, a couple of hours later, when i was driving home, again on the phone with my terminal friend, i thought of that tag. soulmates. haley. i was telling my friend that what she wants isn't wrong and thinking about how i found mine in haley. and then i glance at the car next to me and the tag said: JES51CA

even in my dazed and glazed state, i got that message.

and i looked up to god and winked back.

d: may the fog clear and the day be as bright as the message
b: springing forward with clarity and love.
g: Hailey and JES51CA, SOULM8s.