Well, not really, but I did go to my very first ever drive-in movie tonight with my very first ever and only husband!! I can’t believe we didn’t have one of these where I grew up and that it has taken me this long to have this experience. It may seem that I am getting a little too excited about the drive-in, but I am and have always been a huge fan of all those things that seem like staples of American pop-culture sewn into the fabric of our history; timeless classics like having a candy apple at a fair, the ice-cream truck, kool-aid sales in the summer, high school football games, and root beer floats. The drive-in was definitely right up there with the best of them.
It’s the fresh and refreshed experiences in life that make you feel like you really do have one (a life, i mean). I still can’t put to words my thoughts on marriage and the changes my course has taken here in the last few weeks, but I can say this. I love my husband’s ability to pull me into the moment. That part of his person is essential to me. I sometimes struggle to be present. I am so caught up in what I am doing, what I am not doing, what I think I should be doing, the reasons I feel I am not doing whatever it is I think I could or should be doing. And he’s the one to say, “hey- let’s go to a drive in movie.” And then I am sitting in a lawn chair in the middle of a field in a tiny town in Ohio watching “Night at the Museum” and eating a literal tub of popcorn. And I am in the moment and happy to be… I remember it’s the only place there really is. This afternoon we sat in a patch of grass between the back of our apartment building and the alley in our bathing suits, trying to ignore the dumpster, playing music, and talking about our lives. It is good to plan and good to dream, but today, sitting in the grass is my life. Moral of the story: Don’t miss what’s happening around you because you are trying so hard to figure it all out. I am thinking that all things will get figured and all we really have to work with is right now. Go to a drive-in. Eat a candy apple. Chase down the ice cream truck. You will thank me in the morning. Peace! ~KP