Car Lights at Night

There is nothing that can compare to driving home from play practice at night.
It's dark.
Flurries of snow smack into the windshield out of the blank darkness.
But that darkness is not just darkness.
In that darkness there is an audience.
An audience full of people.
Watching while you step out on stage.
And from that darkness a car light comes at you.
It's the spotlight being turned over to pan on you.
You bask in that sunlight.
You stare deep into the bright car light that comes out of nowhere in the dark.
The dark filled with people.
Filled with people watching you step out on stage.
Car Lights at night.

January 9, 2011