It was a warm day even by the standards set by an abnormally warm winter that surely eluded to a spring and summer that would be warmer still. I could make weather predictions all day but I wasn't about to waste valuable nap time on something so trivial. The key to enjoying an abnormally warm winter day was to simply live in the moment; Oftentimes we get too caught up in responsibility to just enjoy something as simple as the sun on bare skin. The wind sighs and I smile as the canopy above me dances back and forth, the wind brings with it the smell of earth and life and drying rain. My memory cycles for a moment and the old faces of friends long gone filter through my vision. I think about the voices I once found so familiar and the countless adventures I had in what feels like another life. The wind sighs again and the old faces fade from view, the petals of a discarded hydrangea bloom skitter across my face. The sun moves behind a solitary cloud and I shiver momentarily at the temperature drop. Almost in reaction to the cold my mind shifts to the tasks I must complete today. I push the thoughts of duty away and stretch my stiffening limbs. Fresh grass prickles my bare skin but the sensation is never unpleasant to me. I settle in to my patch of paradise for just a little longer, the real world can wait for a few more minutes.