Relive all the good moments in my life without the bad. Simply remove the infidelities, the inopportune, the inadequacies, the betrayals, the loss, the petty to large hurts. Just take them away and leave me with the good, from a young boy walking with his father listening to him talk about his father's legend on the Green River, to me alone walking down country gravel-tar roads in western Ohio's summer, to sitting on a midnight hillside in deep summer grass and feeling the cool breeze of a summer storm in the distance with heat lightwning on the horizon, riding in a girl's Caprice Class my feet out the window in the summer because she had to scoot that bench seat all the way up to reach the pedals, my head in her lap dosing, to taking a break from working with my dad laying a roof and understanding the meaning of the term "refreshing" when grabbing a chocolate shake or two from the local diner, to walking hip deep in a winter storm's snowy silence and discovering a pine wood and deer nesting among piled needle, neither moving nor disturbing each other's peace while I enjoy a tea from my thermos, to roller blading in summer's heat on a bike path heading due west into fields of corn and stopping to watch baby billygoats chase a cat and then traveling down the line a bit and picking fresh mulberries for a quick treat, to sitting lakeside with a J and a cup from the 3rd bottle of wine up north in Canada and watching the moon set behind pines as a great cloud of mosquitoes rise in song with nearby loons and far distant wolf call, to sitting on my apartment's front porch with my dog, cold beer in my hand and knowing my friends are on their way over to play D&D, to walking my wife, whom i waited near a lifetime of hurt and failure, down the aisle and my mother beaming, sitting in my sister's tea garden in late spring, doing a J and drinking a coffee, to almost doing a lap around the building when my first boy was pulled from my wife, to holding either of my children and pacing the floor, rocking them back to sleep at 3am, to watching snowflakes drift through the orange glow of street lights, to listening to my sister preach a message of peace, service, and kindness to others on Sunday mornings, to watching my sons chase early spring's little white butterflies, nets outstretched, smiles, laughter bounding before me...

Eh, for me, Heaven is here. It's just the shit in between...