The Beginning of Victory :: Example Personal Narratives

The Beginning of Victory As the music intoxicateps through the air of the dark basement theater, my fingers begin to trend up the neck of my guitar. Instinct starts to take over. The notes flow through my veins, locomote up the cables, and ar flung into the sphere of energy that has formed around the sharp theater. The spotlight falls onto the closed eyelids of the audience as their steps admit with the rhythmic beat of the improvisation. My mind slips away from the scene. The freshly fallen lead by the nose clings to the limbs of the evergreen trees, forming a canopy over the path that winds its way up the mountainside behind my home. This is where I go when I need to think. As I hike up the narrow trail, I find solitude in nature. There be no houses to fill my view. There are no super-highways cutting through the middle of the path. Most of all, there are no people. A family of deer freezes to look at me in hunt of a place where the blow has not covered the grass. Furth er up the trail I stop to watch as two inkiness squirrels chase each other up and around the skeleton of an aspen tree. by means of a hole in the canopy the sun glistens off the snow and warms me. As I break out of the trees, I look up and see the sun perched alvirtuoso in the sky with not one cloud to hide behind. The band begins to slow the music and the rambunctious saltation turns to hypnotic swaying. A calm, almost mesmerizing jazz progression takes form, and with a slower, more sensuous feeling my body takes command of my instrument in one case more. I start to drift away again, but this time a different scene surfaces. I take my usual seat on the rock outcropping that overlooks all of Eastern Colorado and take a very deep breath. As I look upon the city, I see the tops of the skyscrapers poking through the brown cloud of pollution. The entire vale is enveloped in this smog. To the South, where the clouds begin to dissipate, highways and houses flow over the land that ani mals and vegetation once inhabited. Urban sprawl is replacing nature. Even from this point high higher up the city, the sounds of cars roaring along the highway are intertwined with the magpies call and blue-jays song.