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December 10th, 2008
Driving home in the dark from a Christmas-cookie decorating party, on icy roads with a light snow still falling, the car slides. Just a little bit. It is not serious; I am never out of control and I quickly right the car again. Ice crunches under the wheels. I keep driving.
I feel a tingling all over my body, a quickening of my pulse. A little skid is a whole different kind of scary with my happiness asleep in their car seats in the back.
Suddenly I am not elsewhere. I am here, where I want to be, and my hands are on the wheel.
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Whew! Those moments are terrifying, aren’t they? And I don’t know about you, but I have a tendency to dwell on “what if’s” afterwards… Am glad to hear that it turned out fine.
It’s always after when I start to shake. I guess that’s comfroting that during the crisis I more or less keep it together and wiat until later to lose it.