A Little More than Beautiful

Now that school's begun, I've been paying a whole lot more attention to the last crumbs of summer that are soon to disappear. And I've realized there's a lot of beauty in the ordinary. Wow, how poetic right? ;) No, but really. For example, water. I went swimming at this really old pool in dallas. I mean, this thing first opened in 1932. Bro, it's true vintage. It's really quiet, and when we got there we were basically the only ones there. There were maybe one or two other families, but other than that we were quite seulement. While we were there, I laid, belly- up, on the bottom of the pool looking up at the sky through the water. It looked like a day time version of the Starry Night. I wished I had the ability to breathe underwater, 'cause I could have stayed under there for a while.
Beautiful thing number dos: not something you can see. The after- taste of dreams. You know, how when you first wake up there's this feeling inside of you that's unreal. Like you're still living your other life- the one while you're asleep. And then, as you go through the day you see something and realize, "that might have been in my dreams..." and you think hard but that memory is too far away. I just reread what I've written so far, and it sounds like I'm on drugs. But I can assure you with my full honesty I am not. I just have a hard time explaining the hard-to-explain things. For me, I saw a skull and I remembered that my dream was full of skulls and flowers the night before. (creepy? Yes.) I don't know. Maybe it really is my brain playing tricks on me and making up everything. But either way, that feeling of still being attached to your dream is hauntingly beautiful to me.
Last but not least: The stars and water- sprinklers at night. That's two things, but I noticed them at the same exact time; while I was laying in my driveway the other night.  The thing about stars is this: in Garland, you glance up at the sky and you see only three- the brightest ones. But then, if you're me and you lay in your drive-way for a long time, you start to see more and more and the sky seems to be be-dazzled with them.
As I laid there earlier, I also took not of the water sprinkler. The street lamp illuminated the water droplets spraying out in an orderly/chaotic way. It looked cool and inviting and I ended up running through it in my clothes. Ha. But it felt good and I watched it some more and I liked the winsome effect it created.
I like things that make me think.
God created the beautiful.