i still find pieces of your presence here

[dragonwingof88]

I continue to realize how much of life i've taken for granted, the simple pleasures that in actuality mean more than the seemingly 'big deals' i go through everyday. I was driving home from seeing wedding crashers (completely beyond entertaining - the funniest movie i've seen in quite a long time. i highly recommend seeing it.), listening to the garden state soundtrack (also recommend), and i realized how beautiful driving at night is. just the experience overall is breathtaking...i never really stopped to look at the lights, the magnificence of the color, so vibrant against the black night sky. and you've got such an array of color - the bright vivid traffic light's red green and yellow, the different shades of yellow-white that each pair of headlights emits, the subdued orange-pinks of the streetlights that patch the road with different shades of black. the reflectors off of bicycles and roadsigns that flash in and out as the car headlights hit them. we live in a beautiful world. this is the kind of time when i feel the intense need to take pictures, to capture the brilliance of that one moment, when the cars are positioned just so, and the lights are so sensationally spaced, by chance but so perfectly placed. the entire experience is heightened so when the road is wet and the lights reflect, doubling the splendor. Every one of these lights is placed randomly on this canvas of black twighlight; black, as has become obvious to me tonight, is the most beautiful color in the world. and it's not that it's simply aesthetically pleasing to my eyes, but does it not make perfect sense that the culmination of all the colors that are absorbed into the color black must scientifically make it the most beautiful color in the world? i've decided so. Driving outside at night, watching this extraordinary light show that too few take the pleasure of realizing and appreciating, has the same satisfaction to me now that that light board had for me when i was little. You know, the one that had white lights and you'd place little plastic colored pieces over them which would in turn change the white lights to colors and you could make pictures. i remember when my best friend had one - maybe that's why she was my best friend...i would go over just to play with her light board, until i got one of my own. that was so captivating to me, and now at 17 years old (old enough to see an R-rated movie legally!!), this societal light board is just as enthralling. it was quite an intense drive home, i'm doing it again tomorrow night.

love to all...
-dragonwing