Random Night...
I gotta tell you, I love getting out at night. I don't mean getting out to a bar, or a club, or a show etc. My favorite times & experiences are often just being OUT at night, the later the better and the more quiet & serene the better.
Something about the quiet, the solitude and the beauty of the night is totally refreshing to me in a way that nothing else is.
I miss the road trips I used to take - just me in my 67 Mustang on some deserted highway in the middle of Nowhere, TX. Windows down and air rushing in, little or no traffic, the hum of the engine, the moon & stars up above. Usually the radio was off, but sometimes a little Miles Davis or Coltrane, or Van Morrison.
I could drive for hours and just be in love with the feeling. Sometimes I could hear the locusts or crickets in the fields as I cruised by. Sometimes I'd see a rabbit or a deer near the side of the road, looking up startled as I passed. Beautiful.
I was reminded of all that tonight, even with just a short trip to a local convenience store. The air is cooling, the moon is bright even as it's partially shrouded by soft grey cloud. Stars peek through. The roads were nearly empty and all was fairly quiet, for a suburb of the city. Just that 10 minutes was refreshing to the soul!
Quiet night, cool air with window down. There is a guy I know named 'Sam'. Sam is from Nepal and had loaned me a tape of some of the Indian music he likes - a Khazana recording written & narrated by Gulzar. Tonight, that music was absolutely the perfect thing to go with everything around me. That trip was 10 minutes of paradise.
It's the little things that count, and this was one of them.
dw
Music of Khazana / Gulzar:
posted by Centuryhouse at 9:12 PM
3 Comments:
What a lovely picture, and an even lovelier blog entry. I know exactly what you mean about being in the car, alone, driving along at night...just you and the road. Of course, I don't live in Texas, so it's never just ME and the road in L.A. - haha....I usually experience this if I drive to the desert. :)
Road trips and getting out into the night-what could be better!!
you need some jack kerouac in your life!
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
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