When that happens to me, a walk always helps. Not a walk to a place (the park) or for a purpose (to pick up some groceries) but simply a walk. It's especially helpful, I find, to take streets I've seen but never explored before.
One of my favorite writers recommends the same cure for the blahs, but she explains it much more eloquently:
"My explanation of it is that when I walk in a carefree way, without straining to get to my destination, then I am living in the present. And it is only then that the creative power flourishes."
--Brenda Ueland, from her book If You Want to Write
This evening my walk rewarded me not only with the usual sense of freedom and calm energy, but with this sight as well:
One of the most unique vehicles I've come across for sure! The license plate is from Virginia and says simply "MORTAL". The unusual half-cylinder sign attached to the roof of the car reads:
"Rejecting the soldiers' right to be cloned is treason."
Hm. An interesting assertion. Maybe this car is actually from the future, and there is a trend among soldiers to have themselves cloned and send the clone to the battlefield, while they stay home and live their lives. Those against this idea would argue that the troops are AWOL, since it was they who enlisted and not their clones. Those in favor of the idea (like the owner of this vehicle) would say that soldiers have a right to clone themselves, and that denying them that option is treasonous because it goes against our unalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It's entirely possible!
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