something about this just makes me feel old.
another fake labour day spells september, spells the end of summer already, a few long weeks from the equinox. we are left grasping at the first threads of 'what now?', hoping something tangible will reveal itself so that we can get a look before we have to feel, but we forget once again that the future does not come on in pieces: it arrives whole with arresting events, developments, decisions.
i sit outside and feel a cool evening breeze that in temperature does not prefigure the autumn air to come but, to me, internally, can mean nothing but. i watched and felt the temperature rise these past few days that should have been cooling-- at one point last week the cool-down had felt so permanent that i even put together my annual fall mix cd lest i be caught on my lengthened daily commute without a fresh one, but such certainties are those of the inexperienced and willfully obtuse.
try this, though: fall has been interesting before and will be interesting again, 'interesting' here being meant with the same connotation as the old curse about living in interesting times. that is the certainty of someone who knows.
ask one of these trees. they've seen me sit in this spot before, though perhaps not this early when they were this green, but to the quick i know they can read my thoughts and must spend night sighing knowingly to each other about me and everyone else-- 'why do they live and move in such circles,' they must think. 'they don't have to.'
i sit outside and feel a cool evening breeze that in temperature does not prefigure the autumn air to come but, to me, internally, can mean nothing but. i watched and felt the temperature rise these past few days that should have been cooling-- at one point last week the cool-down had felt so permanent that i even put together my annual fall mix cd lest i be caught on my lengthened daily commute without a fresh one, but such certainties are those of the inexperienced and willfully obtuse.
try this, though: fall has been interesting before and will be interesting again, 'interesting' here being meant with the same connotation as the old curse about living in interesting times. that is the certainty of someone who knows.
ask one of these trees. they've seen me sit in this spot before, though perhaps not this early when they were this green, but to the quick i know they can read my thoughts and must spend night sighing knowingly to each other about me and everyone else-- 'why do they live and move in such circles,' they must think. 'they don't have to.'
previous posts
- books i've read: summer 2008
- you get route 2 between concord and lexington
- we have conversations
- what is religion and of what does its essence cons...
- old path white clouds
- i'd like to see you when all of these angry days b...
- my heart's outstanding bills
- dream my dreams in cylindrical sound
- the move: an epic [IV]
- room on fire
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- twitter (annus_mirabilis)
- ashley (almost a love song)
- kayleigh (i [verb] you)
- nicole (raise your hopeful voice)
- alli (what an odd-sized explosion.)
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- killing the buddha
- the brick testament
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- iq infinity: the unknown james joyce
- ulysses by james joyce
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about
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me: aspiring writer, 'music nerd,' seeker of beautiful moments, college student, armchair theologian, nominal quaker, 'the diet coke of emo with no caffeine,' eclectic left-winger, and generally someone who thinks about things too much.
this: unedited, uninhibited, and uninteresting thoughts, nebulous stream-of-consciousness ramblings of memory, inside jokes, obscure references, emotional paroxysms, and slices of life. sometimes there are pictures.
what people are saying about me
'...something entirely different from anybody i've ever known.'
- krystin
'...a nice boy.'
- laura
'...a maoist!'
- greg
'...elevate[s] emotional self-destructiveness to an art form.'
- greg
'...my favorite pixie.'
- lizzie
'...a damn good conversationalist.'
- kelly
'...blue-raspberry [pie]! or or maybe cranberry raisin.'
- becky
'i feel like a wide eyed kid in the socialist candy store...and [he's] the clerk.'
- christine
'...far too sensible and perceptive to be straight.'
- catherine
'...not british.'
- catherine
'...would have made a good medieval monk. one of the non-crooked ones.'
- catherine
'...should have been born a dolphin.'
- elizabeth
ATOM 0.3
'life was just a series of things i'd read about coming true.'
-- michelle tea, the chelsea whistle
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