logo by chick

This evening, as is the case with every evening in the winter, it was very dark when I got home from work and pulled the car up to the curb in front of my house. And as I got out of the car and was walking up towards my driveway I caught a little movement out of the corner of my eye. Looking up I saw that the movement was coming from the dining room window of our neighbor's house. The window was awash with warm, yellow light, a stark contrast to the pitch-black of the rest of the neighborhood. And in the middle of the window I could see the profile of J, my pretty neighbor girl, sitting at the dinner table with her family. It was just an outline that I could see. The shape of her face, her neck, her shoulders, and her hair tied back in a ponytail, cascading down her back. I stood there in the street for what must have been 15 or 20 seconds just admiring that dark silhouette. It's funny how something so totally simple can be so beautiful.