Perfect moments

Amelie moments that must be documented before they are forgotten:

- the smell of old books, especially the sound when the pages crinkle as you turn them

- warm wind blowing in your face. When the wind blows it surrounds you head to toe, like a full body hug from God.

- walking with dangly earings as they tap on my neck and shoulder and gently jingle.

- light rain that when it hits your face it feels like a holy water sprinkling at mass

- when walking to the beat of the music makes you slow your pace down

- the moment when the rain suddenly gets heavier and everyone on cue rushes for the same few safe overhangs and then after a moment everyone is smiling at each other, for no reason in particular. And then once they have their umbrellas, newspapers, hoods, they rush out, but that moment in between, those shared smiles... perfect.

- walking down the middle of the street

- the way puddles dance into life when the raindrops hit

- when it rains, and the trees are partially wet, and part dry and it looks like they are crying

- the moment a magnolia leaf falls. Once the petal breaks off from the tree in the space of time before it hits the ground is a profound moment. So many petals fall unseen and maybe that's why its so difficult for me to look away from the magnolia trees, because I feel as even if I am the only one to see it fall, my seeing gives the petal's fall purpose. perhaps...

- facing into the wind and inhaling deeply so it feels as if the Holy Spirit is giving you CPR and reviving you slightly

- standing in the middle of the little overpass pedestrian bridge by the BU beach over Storrow Drive, watching the traffic and feeling like you are floating and you can breath deep

- at just the right moment, throwing something forcefully and very far


The colors for today's canvas? hues that are humanly imcomprehensable, to be seen only in Heaven.