Okay, so it's a commercial, but tell me it's not something that doesn't bring tears to your eyes out of the sheer beauty of it. Tell me the thought of looking out of your window and seeing 250,000 bouncy balls boing, boing joyously out your window wouldn't make you wonder why you've missed the beauty in this world.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you need to see this.
It's all in the music.
(Jose Gonzales. He has an album called Veneer that you can buy on Amazon. I will be buying it. Give the boy your money, man. Anyone who can produce that kind of emotion to bouncy balls deserves your money.)
If anyone has trouble seeing it, please let me know and I'll see if I can get another link posted.
Yeah, it's a commercial, but DAMN.
By the way, has anyone ever given a moment like this? You know...that moment when the thing you do makes people stare in awe. A moment where for a brief second their world stops and they're just living in the now and wondering what their lives would have been like if they missed this moment...
I gave a moment I hope to this day made someone, anyone, feel like smiling to themselves in wonder.
I was living in the dorm. This dorm had a U shape, kind of like an open-ended square, with another smaller dorm on one side of the opening. This created a courtyard of sorts. Because of it's shape, even in the smallest breeze, this courtyard would get this kind of whirlwind effect. One day, I was bored. I sat at my open window on a day that was cool by Louisiana standards, feeling bored, and in a typical Lisa moment, decided to blow some bubbles...because I could...
I didn't know that the wind would carry them into this tornado of current, that they'd never touch the walls, that they'd seem to go on forever. I didn't know that I could create a Bubble Tornado. I was enthralled...I made more bubbles...and more bubbles...
But, in truth, what thrilled me more, the memory that I carry with me today, is the faces I saw at the windows. The women who looked outside their little dorm boxes and saw a whirlwind of bubbles dancing before them. The thought that I brought a moment to someone's day that was so surreal that they just stopped...and watched...and enjoyed...makes me very happy.
I like to think that someone smiled. I hope so. If I could do something like that every day to make one person smile so that they don't forget - so that I don't forget - there is beauty in this world of ours, I would. I most certainly would.
The other memory I have is of my best friend coming from across the building up three flights of stairs to burst through MY door with the declaration, "Tell me that isn't you."
I swear, I have no idea why people would assume I'm at the bottom of every weirdness going on around here...
Anyway, Todd and I are both in agreement that this should be the video of that song. It's called "Heartbeats".
It makes me think of that time I walked under a giant oak tree filled with birds. They sang so loudly it echoed in a city of noise, and all I could do was stand there and listen...
