Ten.One Thousand, Nine Hundred & Fifteen

1. Light.

2. The smell and the sound of bacon sizzling in the oven.

3. We head down the hill and come around the curve. The moon is big and white against the pastel morning sky. I am transfixed.

4. Will it ever get old?

5. He reaches to give me a hug - this stranger that I met just yesterday. But maybe it’s just an energy thing. Yesterday he picked mustard blooms. Today, I watch him play with the camera and bounce light off the model’s face. I tell the one beside me that I hope to get to that goal someday - to shoot like this, to feel creative like this again.

6. She says it without saying it. I leave knowing that I am not going to get what I want. The question is, What do I want to do about it now?

7. Already time.

8. Too many 3s. It’s only 9 points, but we can’t seem to claw our way out of it. It was supposed to a be a win. Perhaps I jinxed us.

9. They ask to stop for ice cream on the way back home.

10. She is checking in. I list what is wrong, but what is also right. She reminds me that I dreamt myself into the place I am in now. That means I can dream my way out.