Perfect

Wet air lifts a piece of my sun bleached hair and tickles my nose. I close my eyes, smile and lift my left hand, palm my cheek, brushing it away.

I inhale sweet air, deep through my nostrils. Opening my eyes, I tip my head back, look and the stars and thank the universe for bringing me here. Wonder at the air pushing the clouds above me, a moon in the corner of my vision.

I drop my neck to the left and smiled at a little girl, asleep in a Radio Flyer Wagon. Her parents swayed with the music, their dreadlocks sweeping their lower backs. Eddie Vedder sang sweet to us under the dark blue sky, a blanket wrapping us all up tight together. His voice warm and low, like the air and the energy around me.

A mountain grew out of the Earth to my right, an ocean licked the land to my left. A beautiful voice sang the tune of my generation in front of me. And behind me, my new husband wrapped security around my waist, swaying with the sound, with the breeze, with me, pressing love into my back. His scruffy left cheek to my smooth right one.

I close my eyes and take a mental snapshot of this perfect moment, surrounded by love, nature, music-- warmth in the air and in the arms encircling me. I sway left to right with the island, with the breeze, with Eric.

And, then, I open my eyes and cheer with the crowd.

Kokua Festival, 2007.

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From Eddie Vedder, "Society"
It's a mystery to me
we have a greed with which we have agreed
You think you have to want more than you need
until you have it all you won't be free

society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me

When you want more than you have you think you need
and when you think more than you want
your thoughts begin to bleed

I think I need to find a bigger place
'cos when you have more than you think
you need more space

Society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
society, crazy and deep
I hope you're not lonely without me

there's those thinking more or less less is more
but if less is more how you're keeping score?
Means for every point you make
your level drops
kinda like its starting from the top
you can't do that...society, you're a crazy breed

I hope you're not lonely without me
society, crazy and deep
I hope you're not lonely without me

society, have mercy on me
I hope you're not angry if I disagree

society, crazy and deep
I hope you're not lonely without me