Lasting Impressions

Pink mascara lashes lengthen against baby blue sky batting away white candy-floss filled green valleys.

What a beautiful sunrise this morning.

The painters palette at work again. Although, I have to say, Arizona has the most awesome sunrises in the history of sunrises. In my view, of course.

The air, crisp and clean, rushing through the window, until it abruptly changes to skunk. It wasn’t his fault. I’m sure a car hit him, or another animal got too frisky with him. But, Au weh ist mir (‘Oh woe is me,’ for my non-German speaking friends), the smell.

The smell reaches your nose sending two signals to your brain. The first, ‘Oh god, a skunk,’ the other telling your hand to hit the up button on the window, which you, given the circumstances, will assuredly hit the down portion of the button first, filling the car with even more obnoxious gas before getting the window rolled-up, trapping the gasses inside the car with you. This is what we call a, ‘loose, loose scenario.’

These are lasting impressions. We take the good with the bad.