Notes, In the Open

[fingersweep]

Saying that she was looking forward to being forty (still a long way off), and saying it as though Forty were a mountain she'd seen in some remote area of the country and was looking forward to finally climbing. I've said things like this -- to others -- and, in a contrarian mood, said them quickly and flippantly, sometimes to test the other person

Comments

[nightspore]

I just love this.

I don't think I've ever met David Damrosch but I know his brother Leo a bit.

[proximoception]

Conversations that carry a deep woods scent: the smell of spruces, that smell that rather than rising off the trees, slipping like snow off the branches, seems to come up first from inside us, late, very late, way in the back of the nose.

Magnificent.

[nightspore]

What if BURN THE BOX had been demotic
For Children, while you can, let some last flame
Coat these walls, the lives you lived, relive them?
--Merrill Book of Ephraim