I haven't been blogging lately. I've been working lots. But it is July now - probably my second favourite month of the year - and it deserves a post.
My mind has been running in overdrive lately. Never stopping long enough on one thought to let myself even realize what I'm processing. When I think about what I want to blog about, I can't find one cohesive thought to speak on. Instead, maybe snippets of moments from the past few weeks will suffice. I've been all over the map lately with moments of beauty and pain, and excitement and of bitter boredom and disappointment. The days have been blurring together lately, but there are a few sketches in time that stand out to me from the past weeks...
- Drinking beer with my friends until late in the evening and wandering into the fields behind my house, laying in the unbelievably soft green, young wheat and staring into the night sky.
- Stepping out of my work truck to see another park turn brown and crisp...watching the grass I take care of slowly shrivel and dry out.
- Standing in the quiet livingroom of a friend's house holding a Carol Sheilds book in my hands feeling an overwhelming compulsion to sit down and read it rather than join the voices I hear in the backyard enjoying a Canada Day bbq.
- Listening to fireworks ricochet between downtown buildings and river valley and watching the ash and smoke float between tree branches.
- Watching someone learn to back Karen's work truck and trailer into it's spot in preparation for her leaving for two weeks on Friday.
- Feeling my arms and back turning brown with heat and dirt and sweat and sun.
- Watching one of my friends learn to adjust to a new stage of life and fight against the pull to let freedom and independence become loneliness.
- Breathing in the smell of summer heat, sitting my porch, listening to Bon Iver, watching black birds against pink/blue evening sky.
from Carol Sheild's "Swann"...
"Some days Virginia Woolf is the only person in the universe I want to talk to; but she's dead, of course, and couldn't like me anyway."
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I share the sentiment. I feel like I have had so many wonderful potential thoughts lately, but somehow my brain won't let them bloom. We should have a sit soon.
you feel in overdrive a lot. just sayin'.
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