Thursday, March 7, 2013

Tangerine Dreams and Marmalade Skies

What, you might ask, is the tangerine dream? Simply put, it's everything you want it to be...and more.

 It's the name of your future sailboat and a porch swing in your living room. It is the perfect rugby scrum, but also the one that collapses.  It is the inside jokes with your friends, and the awkward distance between the two points of a German stare.    It's the first carrot you unearth each year, the moments in the air after you jump, and the snowball that breaks apart on your face. It's getting on the wrong bus, and that bend of the Missouri River that you will never forget.  It is certainly NOT that speeding ticket you just mailed to the City of Warrenton, but it is letters from old friends, and midnight bicycle rambles.

Or just maybe... it is how you misheard the lyrics when first hearing that one Beatles' song.  Whatever it might be, it's an adventure.  Let me tell you about it.