wishes for 2009.

[sing_song_girl]

I wish the big three survive and create modern counterparts to the ancient muscle machines. That the hum, the purr of a future American car can still cause my pulse to quicken and knees to shake. I wish we could all turn of our televisions and explore the parks and woods right down the street from us, put on a pair of creek shoes and wade in streams picking up odd pebbles and chasing after water spiders. I wish the fireflies would return to the suburbs. Girls would catch them in mason jars, mischievous boys would rip off their lighted ends and place them on each fingernail. I wish newspapers would never stop their presses and more of us would spend Sundays with ink stains on our fingers. I wish antique stores would not be pushed out of business by Internet giants and we could all be struck by a curiosity to sift through their shelves, flipping through old polaroids of unknown families that somehow mirror so much of our own. To try on costume jewelry that reminds us of our Grandmother's. Open up a good old book with worn covers, browned page edges; open it up and inhale that unique scent only acquired by time and devotion. I wish for an explosion of art; of painting, writing and film. Allow the creators, the artists to take center stage instead of Paris Hilton, Kasey Anthony or whoever is the center of the latest 24-hour news cycle scandal. I wish politics would become more of what we idealized, representatives of US who listen to each others ideas and do what is best for the country, not themselves. I wish Barack Obama can make all his promises come true. I wish we could all try to do our parts to help him, do our part in creating a truly new and good America, carrying ourselves one step closer to the world we've all imagined. I wish we could all find what we're looking for and when we do it makes us feel fulfilled and happy.

So I just wish you could come out and play for a while. There's a great big world out here and sometimes it can be really beautiful.