My Wife Threw a Birthday Party!!
Despite my previous two glaring stories I do want to let you know that I do love America. What it was, is and can be: the reality and the dream all rolled into one place where we all have, at the very least, a chance to make it happen. I can get very fervent and mushy about my status as a United States citizen.
My wife knows this about me. So, last night despite the fact that I had gotten up before dawn and was laying in bed drowsing off by 8:30, she woke me as asked me to go outside with her to watch fireworks. Outside the front door she had our Ford F150 parked under the stars. She's wonderful like that. So up into the bed of the truck I climbed and sat down...still waking up.
Our place is mostly bordered with desert. We live on the rim of our community so it is pretty dark. There were already fireworks emblazoned in the north western sky. As I was looking around my wife turned on the truck radio to a local radio station. The radio pealed into the night air with, "Anchors Away!" and "Stars and Stripes Forever!" and other such patriotic melodies. Unlike my wife, I still can't sing the Start Spangled Banner worth a darn I found out...again.
We ended up sitting on the roof of the truck parked pretty close to the horse corral singing and humming to the songs of America. It was the first time I had watched fireworks with a horse and he was as fascinated by the fireworks as we were. From far off the explosion's flashes reflected off us, the truck and the desert.
There were some new fireworks that I had never seen before. Seeing something new like that always brings my sense of wonder to new heights. It must have done so for our horse, too! Right after the finale' the horse breathed a deep sigh with a hint of a nicker.
There is this feeling of almost instant nostalgia I sometimes get when I wake up to a house the night after a party is over and not everything is cleaned up. I remember the night before: the music, the smiles, the lights, the scents and the celebration. This July 4th was more special than any other I can remember thanks to my wife!
America...another year closer to a future that continuously redefines itself under the this flag of freedom waved proud and high for all the world to see. Corny...but true!
My wife knows this about me. So, last night despite the fact that I had gotten up before dawn and was laying in bed drowsing off by 8:30, she woke me as asked me to go outside with her to watch fireworks. Outside the front door she had our Ford F150 parked under the stars. She's wonderful like that. So up into the bed of the truck I climbed and sat down...still waking up.
Our place is mostly bordered with desert. We live on the rim of our community so it is pretty dark. There were already fireworks emblazoned in the north western sky. As I was looking around my wife turned on the truck radio to a local radio station. The radio pealed into the night air with, "Anchors Away!" and "Stars and Stripes Forever!" and other such patriotic melodies. Unlike my wife, I still can't sing the Start Spangled Banner worth a darn I found out...again.
We ended up sitting on the roof of the truck parked pretty close to the horse corral singing and humming to the songs of America. It was the first time I had watched fireworks with a horse and he was as fascinated by the fireworks as we were. From far off the explosion's flashes reflected off us, the truck and the desert.
There were some new fireworks that I had never seen before. Seeing something new like that always brings my sense of wonder to new heights. It must have done so for our horse, too! Right after the finale' the horse breathed a deep sigh with a hint of a nicker.
There is this feeling of almost instant nostalgia I sometimes get when I wake up to a house the night after a party is over and not everything is cleaned up. I remember the night before: the music, the smiles, the lights, the scents and the celebration. This July 4th was more special than any other I can remember thanks to my wife!
America...another year closer to a future that continuously redefines itself under the this flag of freedom waved proud and high for all the world to see. Corny...but true!
posted by Cool Water William @ 1:55 PM
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