Night Driving
I love highways at night. They make me think of vacations when I was a little girl. I like the dark sky and the and the bright car and street lights. I like the green signs and following a map. I like the knowlege that most of the people in the houses I pass are asleep, and here I am awake. I like how even familiar neighborhoods seem strange and different after dark. I like the important feeling of being a traveler– someone with a destination. I like the peaceful, safe, mobile self-containment of being inside the car. I think I lost my fear of the dark and fell in love with the night time on those childhood road-trips.
