summer solstice

"You never know when you're making a memory"

-Rickie Lee Jones-

While some of the best memories are unplanned

there are often times that in the midst of a moment

I know it wont go forgotten.

 

Friday night was crystal clear, hot but not humid

on our way home from Oyamel 

we slowed to a stop somewhere between Constitution

and the National Botanical Gardens

where on the steps of the Capitol 

the Army Band played, the sound making its way 

down the hill past statues of gallant horses and leading men

rounding the Washington Monument and dancing along

the reflecting pool. Somehow this summer weekly free 

concert went thankfully under the tourist radar

and the normally crowded mall was perfectly 

scarce of screaming 8th graders and 

hoards of people with matching neon t-shirts. 

I am so thankful to live where I do, 

in the country I do,

with the people I do.