Brown Girl Dreaming - Air and Dirt

As i was reading browngirl dreaming, i was struck by the way you wrote about air. The word first shows up in this sentence about your father catching a football. I think the air thing for me comes with the juxtaposition between the country and the city. When i look back on greenville, that's how i remember it. And when i think of the past,  there's much more air in that a eno.