First Base

  

  Dawn of the new day, found me, searching the tube for anything but the news.
     I refuse to listen to this horror story of politics, for I fear what I may say and or do!!!
     So I click the clicker, a million and one times, nothing is on when the hubs and I wander downstairs.
     Quiet is good, birds singing is wonderful, mass on one channel, cartoons on the next, choices are few at around 5 am. Around seven I seem to find an old movie, or two. ( You know I am not watching, but what words and sounds you surround yourself with, at any time, can alter your day!!) ( Be particular!) ( You carry all the stuff with you)
    I pray before my feet hit the floor, so the blaring TV being on, has not disturbed my mojo with the lord.
   ( You do know that I will somehow write a blog and this will have little to do with it, but in my mind, honey it is all connected)
   There was a movie on, that I have seen way too many times, and it caught my attention. The two main characters, a boy and girl, were pulling into, a no longer vigorous, drive-in movie theater. There was no talking, just the empty, exhausted speaker and screen.( it was filmed in New Orleans, or maybe Texas and I could feel the humidity and hear the mosquitoes) ( they had no bug coils lit up on the rear view mirror)  my heart skipped a few beats.
   He moved over to her side of the car, and touched her face, and that was all I needed to see. I closed my eyes ( stopped making up my bed, and fell to the mattress)  and decided that what was wrong with the world, was no one was having to get to first base anymore!! The tension in the car at the drive-in with your new guy, was electric and innocent. First kisses, that could last for the entire movie time. Conversations into the night, friends hopping from one car to the next for visiting. It was a simple time, or so it seemed to us, to grow up. We went to the drive-in every weekend, and did not truly care what was playing.
    It could also be a family outing, I guess it depended on the film. Load up the car, and entire neighborhoods would be there. I don't ever remember wearing shoes, running all over the place.
   This little snippet of a movie that I was watching this Sunday morn, was a reminder to reflect on the past, but make some first on this day also. AND since we all have rounded the bases a time or a hundred, we have to look and work a tiny bit harder for things that seem so new. Tastes, music, films, books, people, places, I think we all want to feel like that first kiss, drive-in, getting to first base experience in a pretty worn shoes kind of world.
          I hope your day is whatever you wish it to be, mine will be awesome beyond belief!! Look how it started, on First Base!!!!