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Stevie's Dance

(Vio-fonik)
2006-10-02
Harry Scorzo
"Stevie’s Dance"
Steve is my younger son. When he was in kindergarten, it would take him 45 minutes to get from the school door to the end of the block. He would take a few steps forward, stop and talk to imaginary friends, then take a few steps backward and repeat the process over and over until the little play in his mind was over. He always had a handful of little brightly colored toys, and couldn’t get enough of those starburst candies. When I think back to his dreamy little walk down that block, I think about our human need for altered states of consciousness, and our need to connect with something bigger. I feel like my career is almost as wonderfully pointless as his trip from the school door to my car. I’m a grown up version of him.