Jun 23, 2005 18:11
I have found myself with a tenacious hold on eight red balloons which have stress in place of their helium. We have been floating in the atmosphere together sometime since early last week...My balloons have taken me anywhere but home. When flying too high with these balloons my mind is very obscure and the strain in my head increases with altitude....Hope. Yesterday, I seemed to have managed to let four of these balloons soar free from my grasp, onward and upward until they reach the sun and their mass bursts into a million pieces and falls in a downward spiral towards level ground eventually becoming someone else's red stress balloons. Today my toes can almost touch ground, but not quite yet. I'm reaching as hard as I can, but I doubt they will soar away from this hold until I find myself sipping warm sake under a grandiose sunset in the land of the rising sun.
My plane leaves July 11th at 11:45 from LAX and takes me into the future where I will be one happy girl landing in Tokyo,Japan. Goodbye Sounthern California. Hello Asia.