10 Beautiful Thing - Free Write

Free Write - 10 Beautiful Things

1. The last day of school - no matter what age. Proudly striding out - finding my brother as the sun dances across about a zillion faces. We give each other that wide eye ‘rock’n dude’n cool look , and carelessly through our backpack in the back set of whatever car. May it have been my mom’s mini-van, the sloppy public bus seats, or my cabin seats you have to climb to reach.

1. When the both of us get on board with a story. One or the other will start by saying - Oh my God! I can’t believe I didn’t tell you! We get it. It’s time to start the listening - the ‘piss yourself silly’ is promised to come. Forever a quotable story, that will be referenced.
2. Forrest Gump, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Roman Holiday. You could tell me that all three were in Mussolini’s Top Five - I wouldn’t bat an eye. I cry during all three - wonderful - ‘why can’t reality be like so’ cry’s. I can tell you when the aqueducts will break each time. Here it comes.
3. Hot Sand - when your on the beach laying in the sun. It’s what warm water in the winter is to summer. Gives you that great sensation of having to tinkle. 
4. Dreaming - the act in which your heart makes a wish. Whether you’re sound asleep - or your mind decides to run bit. If I couldn’t dream - if anyone couldn’t dream - you would do such limited things in life.
5. Elberta, Michigan - the stretch of beach here is unlike any other along Lake Michigan. Purest sands, clearest waters, highest winds, and deepest night skies. You lay there for an hour or so, and you never want to leave.
6. Running.  What to some might be hell - yeah it is - but in the right moment unbeatable. The rush that the worlds troubles will dissolve away every time you take another leaping stride in those back lot hills.
7. The way he would smile - while we nodded - off to “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.” I knew I was bathing in a tub of wrong, but I wasn’t going to hop out until he made me.
8. Mothers. They make boys into men - and let daughters cry on their shoulders when those men don’t meet expectations. They are the kindest, selfless beings in the world. They make the world. Your mother is your biggest fan - toughest lady you’ll ever meet.
9. Privacy. When it’s dead for all the right reasons. When you get the moment you have wanted forever, but have been to busy to realize. When you roll the car to a stop, lower the windows, and yell. You yell crazy noses at nothing - some building which can’t hear, but it feels like a dream. You have made the right choice. It’s private moments that let you know you’re still alive.