All i want to write about lately is sunsets and awkward hugs and rediscovering coconut macaroons and underwear and secondish chances and growing old and justice and my new awareness of food industry issues and the smell of outdoors no matter what the season and wanting to see Germany and my new Magic decks and that last date and how hard it is to do Street Fighter IV combos and pictures like this
and not having to wear a coat anymore and handshakes after really close games and people being nice to me and feeling more comfortable with barre chords and what Geneviève wears and Breaking Bad and Nick Drake’s life and root beer floats and the sound of a melodica and pretty cats and opening boosters and the luxury of saying no and how weird it feels to drive somewhere in your PJs and introducing others to that aloe drink and the same old memories that I still cherish and mini-Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and walking baselines and being surrounded by such good people and having a PS3 and the time complexity of sorting algorithms and wondering if it’s too late to call and how excited Ryan gets when I visit and the songs I want to write and my memories of America and scented oils from the Body Shop and chocolate beers and the image of a gauzy dress in the sun.
I don’t know what it is about sun soaked photos but they make me feel like a contented 5 year old feeling totally safe riding the subway for that brief moment when it goes above ground and the sun fills the car and everything is warm and my knees are pulled up close to my chest and my head it reasting on the window and my smile is wide and unabashed.
This is how life should be. Like .…bao, like all the fullness of bounty.
What a glorious day that was. I can look at this picture and pretend I’m warm. Ever since, the sun has been deceiving me, calling me outside where the cold wind lies in ambush.
That’s not fair. You always get all the good stuff.