Day 19: Breathe, Seek, Play....Roller Coasters

Today was one of those days that you just want to clone...no meltdowns, no whining, smooth sailing and easy going.  It's one of those day when nothing spectacular happened but was that is what makes it wonderful....these are the days when I will not kid you, I think back to what did we eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner...how can we recreate another day like this?  It's not a normal for us to have a day without chaos....so in a way today was spectacular!  I think the days that we have grown used to our imperfections that we almost want to throw a party to celebrate days like today. But the truth is our lives run on a roller coaster, there are ups and downs, twists and turns, and loop de loops....and we are used to that...And today was a merry go round...nice and easy, ups and downs, happy go lucky. It was a nice change from the normal!  Sometimes it's a breath of fresh air to get off the roller coaster once in awhile...because I know tomorrow we'll here the announcement overhead "pull down on the lap bar, keep your hands inside the vehicle at all times and enjoy your ride"....and who listens to that?  We all throw are hands up in the air and scream at the top of our lungs....and hope the safety bar will hold us in during the ride....Do you remember your first time on a roller coaster? Mine was the Rebel Yell at Kings Dominion.   The clickety clack of the track as the wooden cars climbed up what seemed like a mountain, only to plunge full force down a steep sloop leaving your stomach somewhere hanging in hopes you'll catch it! SWOOSH, and hair pin turns, left then right, so fast and unpredictable,thrilling and scary, not knowing when it was going to end.   Life is sometimes like that...It reminds me of the grandmother from the movie Parenthood...as she is talking to her son as he is complaining of a complicated life...she tells him "You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it."  Grandma is right...as much as I love today's Merry Go Round...I'd rather be on the roller coaster.  There is something wonderful and comforting about the Roller Coaster.  Hunter Thompson sums it up best "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”