i remember.

i remember Christmas morning 2005

waiting for my parents on the top of the stairs as they ritually searched for the dinosaur video camera to film our reaction

i remember wanting to grow up

i remember my first pair of chuck Taylor's

i remember when I fell in the love with a paint set and a blank canvas

i remember the bonfires

i remember going down to the creek in our red rain boots

i remember memorizing how to spell Mississippi

i remember crossing my fingers on both hands at orientation that he would be in my second grade class

i remember always wanting to grow up

i remember my white first generation iPod shuffle 

i remember my obsession for uncle Jesse on full house

i remember fresh rain and the endless streets of Boston

i remember the boardwalks and the full moons and the blue cotton candy

i remember a world where technology didn't take over

i remember wanting to grow up

i remember when i wasn't grown up

when i didn't come home to college housing options on the desktop of my moms computer

when there was huge gap in between my two from teeth

when i didn't understand what it felt like to be broken

i remember