It’s Still Summer

When we were younger we saw the signs more prevalently, more often, on the path to school, trudging through the wet grass as though the magical shimmering droplets were made of some other substance, always a surprise to find damp socks as we sat down into class.

this made me think of my childhood and teenhood. Also made me think of the book that I considered my favorite right around the age of 16. I won't even mention it because it's not a good book. It's kind of like how 

Nedzen

described the feeling of 

psychedelics

never really being truly about the psychedelics themselves and more about how they unlocked something personal within the human.

dew was always too pretty to betray us - and our socks paid the price

which book is this, if you were to describe it in six nouns, two colors, and an animal?

Lol well what was your favorite book that blew your mind? that made you change the way you lived? 

this book made me want different things in life. want different friends. made me realize things about myself. 

tell me the book that did that to you at different age groups and i can just tell you the actual book title 

though, if i had to pick two colors it would be urban polluted night sky and interior brightly lit room.

cliché as it is i found hemingway to be the author that blew me away most. his brevity and economy of language just absolutely threw me for a loop.

islands in the stream is the best summer read.

maybe the snows of kilimanjaro for winter.

for fall?

who's asking?

it's not fall yet, sucka.

are you trying to steal away the summer day?



but when i was 13, it was actually to kill a mockingbird that f'ed with me the most

in a good way, i think, but it was still f'ing with me

so michigan winter purple, is what you're telling me, because that is a very distinct color

and white-meet-ghostly-pale color of lighting

I like these color names you've come up with in response to my color names haha.

I was blown away by 

Ernest Hemingway

as well, but this happened when I was much older. Like a senior in college lol. I remember taking time away from my actual studies to read more Hemingway. Things like 

The Sun Also Rises

and short stories like A Clean Well-Lighted Place.

It shall soon be fall though. very soon. school has already begun for the

Hoosiers

 here.

I fell in love with Hemingway's writing as well in my early 20's. I just couldn't believe how well he mastered the english language and how  he made his sentences just flow. Back then I was traveling in Europe while reading the sun also rises and, it inspired me to start a daily journal.

jealous of that experience ha, that sounds awesome

i also really appreciated his lack of  "he said" "she said" lines; you had to be following the dialogue and read each person's intonation/meaning to really get the juice of it. i've tried to do that myself to... varying success ha but it's a huge gauge of dialogue strength if you can carry it

Hemingway's inspiration comes from life, from experience and, aesthetically there's an odd resemblance between Cézanne's painting and his writing.

I was also floored by his terse dialogue. 

Cezanne. i always see him mentioned in high art lol. gotta check him out.