I was watching an episode of The Office last night, it is a later episode, where Dwight is trying to convince his siblings to stay and work their aunt’s farm after her death. They played this song, and the melody transported me. It has nothing to do with love or anything like that, but the feel the song gave me put me in a place that made me so incredibly happy, I don’t think I will see my future without hearing this song in the back drop. So I am going to paint the scene I saw when these notes hit my ears.

Imagine a lush green rolling field, the grass is soft on my feet as I sit on a blanket on a temperate day with a cool steady breeze. I have a pair of worn jeans, old flannel and worn-in leather flip flops on my feet. I am sitting with Jayme to my left. we are looking down on our small home we built ourselves and a few old outbuilding that are worn but still serving a purpose. we lay back and look up at the fast moving clouds. Fluffy ones, whispy ones, and ones that look like shapes. I have my guitar near and we are getting ready to eat our sandwich lunch and drink the growler of beer we got from town. We are in no hurry to get anywhere. The world doesn’t exist beyond our piece of paradise.

The image to me is one of freedom, carefree love, and complete comfort. It is exactly what I want for our lives, maybe not the specifics, but the ideas. We are on the precipice of the next stage of our lives and I feel hopeful for our future and excited to explore how these ideas will take physical form in what is around us. The scene may change and that will be just fine, as long as the person next to me doesn’t.