This is What Spring Looks Like
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Tony and I and a bunch of other people went to the Festival of Colors last Saturday, which was held in Knoch Knolls Park in Naperville. It was, how do you say? A pretty rocking time. Basically I got to spend an afternoon chasing little kids around trying to cover them in green and yellow flour. As you can see, I managed to get quite colorful myself.
The Festival of Colors is an Indian thing welcoming the coming of Spring. It was really amazing, punctuated by delicious Indian food. It really made me wish that American culture had more active cultural festivals. Ours are far too passive. It seems that our culture is becoming more divided and making us feel more isolated. Sometimes all I want to do is reach out and touch somebody, make them acknowledge that I exist, and they exist, and we exist.
How is it that I feel most alive when I play on borrowed time?
Photos courtesy of Tony Thomas.
