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The View from the Driver Seat
By bbrown | September 8, 2008
The thing I love most about these long car trips is that it’s just pure, undiluted Sandi. All too often in the day to day I get snippets of frustrated Sandi, helpful Sandi, chiding Sandi, loving Sandi, and all of the other sides to her that you may see at any particular moment. But it’s almost always a reaction to those around her—me, the kids, her friends, her family.
In the car, though, it’s just her being her. It helps me to remember the amazing, engrossing, and entrancing person that she is. I forget it all too often because I, too, present myself to her as reacting Bill. And I get too self-involved, too distracted with the busy-ness. These trips (and my week-long vacation two weeks ago) re-center me: my family, no one and nothing else matters to me.
She asked what my favorite moment of the trip was and I replied that it was listening to her relate her dreams. I won’t say what those dreams are—she’ll announce them or tell you when she’s good and ready—but they were yet another example of how she’s the most dynamic person I know. In those moments, I was lost in the feeling that she’s great and how did I luck out. (Don’t worry, this wasn’t happening on the curves: those times were radio silence.)
Topics: Thoughts | 2 Comments »
September 8th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Bill,
I have those moments with Jodi whenever we take a road trip together. That feeling of “how do I ever forget how awesome she is!?” never gets old.
September 8th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
17 years later we are still just as in love with each other as we always were so I would say it never gets old.