in Missouri

Tonight my parents and Nana are watcing a baseball game. I've been reading Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. Today we went to see Granddad's grave and ate at a meaty buffet restaurant in Salem called Stephen's Steakhouse. I liked the mashed potatoes and the bread. Last night I saw fireflies for the first time, and in the day I saw a cardinal. I had never seen fireflies on tv or anything and had no idea they were like that. I thought they'd be really faint and that their lights stayed on and imagined them flying around together like a school of fish. I had no idea they'd look like embers flying up from a campfire without the fire, or like a hallucination--they're really something. Almost bedtime. It's dark in here, so I'm typing in the dark.