Crystal emerged from the shower, glistening and content. The steam billowed about her bathroom and seemed to follow her as she danced nude toward her adjoining bedroom. Her stereo was on and the music lifted her spirits.
She sang along and sometimes sang the harmonies as she dried her hair and opened the lotion bottle. Music had always been her retreat, her solace when nothing else could. Today she danced from joy, filled with the idea that she and music had once again come together as one.
Caught up in the strains of her favorite songs, she lost all track of everything outside herself and danced naked through the house, and made her way to the kitchen. She poured some tea, danced around the center island, then made her way out onto the deck in her backyard and welcomed the day into her
