June 24, 2003
Vacation Story 1.
One night during vacation, I woke out of a sound sleep to see the world outside my high windows suffused with an eerie intense green light. I blink and the light slowly fades. My friend P also says that she remembers seeing some kind of green light through her closed eyelids. But she assumed that she was dreaming and just went back to sleep.
All week long we discuss what it could have been. We speculate (laughing nervously): Aliens? Some meteorological phenomenon? Swamp gas? A sign that our healing rituals are working? (Green is the color of healing.) Wouldn’t it be great if magic works?
We are spooked. And we are intrigued.
Then, several nights later, coming back from the bathroom (I do a lot of that these days) in the middle of the night, I see the green light again. It fills the air outside the cottage. I stop in my tracks and, through the windows that line the wall across the front of the cottage, I watch it slowly and silently drift by.
Suddenly, two oddly shaped heads appear moving along the bottom of a window. I move closer. Two oddly shaped heads, bulging eyes, green light.
Heh. Two guys wearing helmets and goggles, dressed in wet suits and riding bikes with gigantic green headlights, quietly pedaling down the dirt road outside our cottage, toward the ocean, probably to get in some private surfing.
While it was fun to think it might actually be something magical, it was even more fun to get a good, silly laugh over the surprises and absurdities of reality.
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