pour out your water

i watched the most spectacularly beautiful movie yesterday and it has been running through my mind since then. if you want to be blown away, go get yourself a copy of hero and give yourself some time for something wonderful.

i also daydreamed yesterday. i remembered this place i went to in high school. i was working at a summer camp and we took this weekend off to go camping. we drove up the coast for awhile and then found a spot to camp by the dunes. one afternoon we went exploring and just walked out into the dunes. we kept walking and walking, up and over another dune just to find ourselves facing more sand. it was like in the movies where the characters have to cross the desert and all they see all around is more sand. that's where we were, just trekking through the sand. we crested yet another dune and were met with a wonderful surprise. an oasis stood before us. not the kind of oasis one might expect to find. this oasis was more or less a straggly tree and a pond of stagnant water. but when i closed my eyes it seemed more an enormous paradise with trees and waterfalls and tropical birds. that is what i remembered. and then i smiled.