The one place you want to be

March 4, 2009 at 9:50 am | Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Yesterday Caitlin and I brainstormed future lives — in other countries, with other professions. Maybe their winter will be our summer. We’ll forget that it gets cold in June. Maybe this recession is a depression. We should be saving milk bottles and bits of tin foil. Maybe we should be: watching the pale winter sun stream through the dirty plate-glass window of a coffee shop on Clark St.; rubbing the salt stains off our suede sneakers with windburned fingertips, sharing recipes for bread and yogurt made from scratch — bacteria is your best friend — and thinking this $2.50 for an espresso will be the last one of the week. And the sun through the dirty plate glass window pools under the smooth pine table like a dog at our feet, today is warmer than yesterday, and everything seems possible — bread, yogurt, and everything.

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Brilliant :]

Comment by Deardeedle— March 4, 2009 #

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i would love to have windburned fingertips right now.

Comment by carolyn— March 5, 2009 #

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Seriously – would it be right in this economy to daydream about leaving one’s job to do something ridiculous like become a farmer or a philosopher? Because I think I might like some of my days ruled by nature or incessant thought groups. Either all mental or all physical – but not both :] When did that not become a choice?

Comment by deardeedle— March 8, 2009 #

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I think it should still be allowed! — you should totally become a farmer or a philosopher or a yarn-dyer or stationary designer or whatever your heart floats to. Because without daydreams life gets sadder. xx

Comment by lindsay— March 8, 2009 #

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Dream whatever you want, in whatever economy, Deanna….I always do

Comment by Janelle— March 9, 2009 #

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