You’re on a dance floor, having the time of your life. You’re singing and jumping and no part of you isn’t bursting with ecstatic a life. It’s a massive celebration, everyone you know is somewhere on that floor.
Certain bird calls are as familiar as my heartbeat. I know what flowers and trees give off which aroma. The familiarity of this, the feeling of my feet navigating the ground, amid the lush greenery that abounds.
You know that pleasant wave of nostalgia that washes over you when the sun does his bright orange dance behind the three massive volcanoes who hold quorum around here
I find myself awake to a new year abuzz with activities whose seeds were planted on days so complete in themselves, that it never fully dawned on me they’d sprout to the present stage of their endeavoring lives.
I was down and out in Vietnam, feverish, towards end of my money, nearly maxed out in my credit card, in chronic pain, and locked inside an apartment in Saigon where my couch surfer host seemed to be confused about the difference between hosting and imprisoning a guest.
We are not unlike the dew that decorates each new day, appearing one morning out of thin air, warming as the sun rises and then disappearing into the light.