Spring is coming. I heard it yesterday. I had begun to think Winter had set up camp and begun working on a permanent residence, but I smelled watermelon and sunshine on the breeze yesterday afternoon and I knew Spring was waiting at the airport. It should be no time at all until I'm complaining about how hot it is.
As you can see from my intro, I'm feeling poetic and a little nosalgic today, so I thought I'd go for another Top 5.
You know those moments in time, when everything is absolutely perfect for just a fleeting second, and if you could stop the world and live in that moment, you would? Here are my Top 5, in no particular order. I'm hoping for plenty more to follow.
1. I've just turned 11. Junior high and adolescence and all the angst and drama that go with it are on the horizon, but for the moment, I am truly a child. The fireworks are exploding in a bright stream of noise and magnificence behind Cinderella's Castle. I'm riding a carousel horse, with my brand new satin princess hat on my head, purchased just minutes earlier at the Mad Hatter's Shop. "When You Wish Upon a Star," is playing overhead, my cousins, aka my best friends in the whole wide world, are sitting on either side of me, and tears are running down my face because the experience is a million times more magical than I had ever expected it to be.
2. I've just started college. I've left my easel and canvas, with all the smells of oil paint and turpentine and liquin indoors and gone outside to sketch the students milling around on the lawn. The sun is shining and reflecting off the pond and the breeze is warm. After an hour or so, I decide to skip my next class and throw everything into the car, where I spend the next couple of hours doing nothing but driving with the windows down and the music turned up.
3. It's the summer before my junior year of high school. I've been dating this guy for a couple of months and watching him play hockey with his friends for weeks now. I bring my skates and waste time skating around by myself, waiting to skate with him. I'm sitting down to take my skates off, when their leader, who is everyone's hero and far above questioning, tells me I'm no longer allowed to skate there without playing some hockey (which I've secretly been dying to do) and hands me a stick. I've been accepted into this boys' club and I'm excited and yet, I don't want to disappoint anyone. I live and breathe hockey for the rest of the summer.
4. We're on vacation together and the weather's still a little chilly. We've been through museums and malls, a zoo and a lot of pasta, steak and cheesecake. He hasn't proposed yet, but I know it's only a matter of time. When you're with someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you can feel it. It seems like we have all the time in the world and our lives are stretched out before us, ready to become whatever we decide to make of them.
5. It's just last summer. The sun is high in the sky and you almost have to squint in the brightness. It's Kasey's first time at the lake and she has absolutely no fear of the water, bounding right in, splashing water everywhere. We spend the afternoon swimming, snacking and building an elaborate sand castle. We leave exhausted, sand-covered and deliriously happy.
I was pleased to discover how hard it was to narrow this down to just five. :)
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