March 20: I don't know why it caught my eye but it did. For literally a split second but it did. As I drove north on the highway past the inner city part of the ride I saw the apartment building facing the highway. There was a big sign on it shouting free months rent for first 2 months with immediate move in, there were many empty windows and only a few that looked like there was life inside the units.
It was then I saw them. The mother was standing in front of the front door jingling the keys in the door lock. She looked weary from the work day. But next to her was a little girl…maybe 7 or 8 years old. She was wearing some sort of school uniform and was jumping up and down, twisting around, sort of dancing and alive with joy. The door opened and they vanished inside. All in a split second. All as my car raced by with the Band singing The Weight on the CD. I thought how charming and innocent that child looked. She was somewhere in her own dream listening to some music in her head, dancing around wanting to tell her mom about the adventures of her day and filled with hope, joy for life and purity of purpose. Standing on a walkway, by the highway, in the inner city as cars raced by that little girl was in her special world, happy to be home with mom. I captured that moment and it stays with me. Can we not see the beauty in such a moment. Can we not live our dream. Can we not find our inner child and remember the simplicity of it all. Can we not share a moment with each other. Whether on a beach, a mountaintop or a walkway in the inner city. Find the joy in the ageless experiment even as the cars race by as the sun is setting on another busy day.