Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
My body should ache right now.
I'm not yet thirty, but already I can feel my youth slipping away. I have muscle pains I never had before, and I can't have more than a couple drinks without my head and stomach making me pay hell for it the next day, and the last time I tried to sleep on a hardwood floor of a friend's apartment, I had a bruise on my hip that took a week to heal. So sleeping on a cold marble floor should be out of the question.
Yet on the night of Saturday, February 19th I slept on the floor of the Capital Building of the State of Wisconsin and suffered no ill effects. I didn't get much sleep, it's true, but later I felt no aches in my back or hips. No pinched neck or frozen shoulders. In fact, my body felt better than it had in months, maybe in years. I almost felt my age.
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