The best you get

The best it gets in this world

is a couple days with your children next to the lake

A couple miles with the music too loud to shout out the directions

A few times in a sauna where you fall asleep awake

Life is long, life is short, the good times aren’t distributed evenly, but you never know when another good time will sneak up on you.

A couple scenes from movies you can remember line for line

A couple records that sound so good you just start them again when they finish.