A Week of Shorts: Loud Joy

One of the more fun things in the world is not knowing exactly what you’re doing.

The uncertainness of it makes you laugh. It’s a nervous laugh but still a laugh. Laughing is sweet and precious like a Hershey’s kiss buried in the bottom of a cavernous purse, waiting for you to arrive. Especially if you are by yourself in which case laughing becomes a lot like loud joy.

I felt this way today recording a short video about my hat and ballet dancing and saguaro cacti at the visitors’ center at a national park when forty people on a tour stopped in their tracks to watch me.

I could’ve been the kid pretending to be an Olympic ice skater on a pond near her house and having kids from school show up to gawk.

I laughed at my misstep and started over somewhere else. Loud joy is so fine.