I keep winding back to when I was in my early twenties....just those days when things were so different and you were so young....living in Springfield over the dry cleaners....a locked fence to our long steep staircase to our apartments...there were only two...and you had to be careful when you came up to the roof and to make sure you stayed on the grip tape path made for walking....you could possibly go through the roof...our large living room window facing over where we stood and smoked our cigarettes...our view was of the park...some old apartment buildings....but always the hint of the sunset during the summer...roof smelling of the warm sun...but yet fresh fresh from the dry cleaners below...my sewing machine by the small window...dried flowers in vases...my collection of black and white postcards mixed upon our youthful literature on the shelfs....two homes open to each other...we would keep the doors ajar and wander back and forth between the two...my friend Ethan always made us good dinners....and always made sure there was a vegetable no matter what...even with the mac-n-cheese...we had our veggies...learning to smoke out of bong...ahh pappy....dancing to the Velevet Underground....learning how to be .....that what I was was okay.....discovering music...wandering out at one in the morning to see the boys hanging out and playing video games....and one of them making me an egg sandwich....because that was what I was craving....traded up the games to make me food...earth, wind, and fire in the background....it was comfort for that bit of time.....scrounging up change to get a ghetto dinner at the minute mart down the street...i had never eaten so many little debbies in my life.....and cheap tostinos pizzas...ugh...my tummy...and it has all brought me to this....this amazing bit of my life....i love my job...dance is in my life and I keep meeting more and more people....staring at them in awe of what they are....how they are on this ride with me on a planet hurling through a universe....damn, what a good time.....