Uptown~

Here on the 7th floor, you are somehow high enough to see for a good distance, yet close enough to feel a part of it all.  I can see life happening and feel it moving.  If someone were to look up they could easily see me standing naked at the window.  Not that I do this terribly often, but one does have to get up in the morning and make the bed, does one not?!

Its all rooftops and bridges, Starbucks and boutiques on this side of town.  Small dogs, high heels, and yoga mats.

Accross the street sits a park measuring a square block.  With layered ampitheater-like cement and grass sitting steps on two opposite sides of it,  and art-deco style walkway joining them, the park manages to be manicured on one side and wonderfully wild and unkempt on the other, including a marshlike pond housing a few indecernable fish in its cloudy depths.  

Here on the 7th floor I can simply step inside when the breeze cools me too much and still maintain almost the same view.  These are the places that I would often pass by and wonder who, as in” what type of people”, could possibly live here?  Accompanying these thoughts would follow the requisite judgements about “who they must think they are”.  Well kids…you know who they are?  They are simply more of our brothers and sisters trying to navigate this thing called life the best way they can figure out how to.  They have children, and jobs, and dreams of better things.  Some of them “get it”, and some of them don’t.  Some of them care deeply, and some of them never will.  And some of them are the most sweet and loving people you could ever hope to meet, like my lover who owns this condo, and this balcony.  She is an absolute goddess of sweetness and regained purity.  Her eyes and smile radiant with the love of somone who has managed to create a successful business and still reclaimed their light.  It’s quite a thing to experience actually.  And yes, of course,  some are just unmitigated assholes.  Kind of like everybody else in the world…..Yeah,  just like that actually.                                                                                                                   

 You know what IS cool about hanging out with people who have money though?  Everything works!  I mean all their shit works…all the time!!  Things like the jacuzzi bathtub that fills up in under a minute, then with the simple push of a button…magic!   You gotta love that! 

 So now, for however long it lasts, I get to play around with being “That guy”.  The one who lives part time on the 7th floor, with the view of the St Jhon’s Bridge, the Steel Bridge, and Union Station, all from the balcony. 

 Hey, I wonder how cool the view is from the 8TH FLOOR?!!!

Just sayin’…

~ by shamantrablog on August 26, 2010.