More fall sentiments
Wow, I SO think of you, Hannah, and horseback riding all the time! There was something so beautiful about that little meadow and the orchard on a sun-soaked fall day, especially when you could smell the sweetness of fallen apples in the air.
So I guess xylem and phloem really sunk in. :D I currently have about five gigantic, almost bush-like, aster plants that are covered with bright purple blossoms all over. They look much better than my mums do this year for some reason. My gardening makes me nostalgic, especially when I am standing close to my flowers and I can watch the bees and butterflies doing their work in the sun. It's almost as if there weren't a freeway several hundred yards from my back door. The sound of a bee draws me in and makes me think of all the novels I used to/still do read where it's before cars and the characters are always doing things out in meadows or woods or on country roads and are always surrounded by idyllic scenes filled with the really simple stuff of life: sky, earth, and living things. Like the chapter where Laurie and Jo are walking along the road and decide to race, and then Meg comes walking primly by and scolds her for not being a lady. Ha! It's so kitschy (wow, I've never written that word before...how do you spell it?) is it not? But then, I have developed a great taste for sappy, idealistic thoughts.
It also occurs to me that more than one person has mentioned feeling as though they "bailed" on the rest of us. Wow. Are there any of us who DON'T feel that way? Because I do too. I really, really do, and at times I have felt weird about getting back in touch with people because of that. So I'm so glad we're doing this. I think Hannah is right...it was just time for us to all do our own thing, and that doesn't mean we shouldn't have kept better in touch...it just sorta happened the way it did. And some of our connections "stuck" better than others, because of geography or determination or what have you. But I think it will work out better this way than if we'd really really tried to keep things going all these years. I can't speak for you all of course, but I'm truly who I am now, and can bring that into our group and know that it's truly me and not just somebody I'm trying to be. Am I making any sense? I'm such a dork.
I'm going back out to the yard now. Asher is asleep and I want to wallow in the sun because we have a nice warm week coming up and it may be the last of the year.
So I guess xylem and phloem really sunk in. :D I currently have about five gigantic, almost bush-like, aster plants that are covered with bright purple blossoms all over. They look much better than my mums do this year for some reason. My gardening makes me nostalgic, especially when I am standing close to my flowers and I can watch the bees and butterflies doing their work in the sun. It's almost as if there weren't a freeway several hundred yards from my back door. The sound of a bee draws me in and makes me think of all the novels I used to/still do read where it's before cars and the characters are always doing things out in meadows or woods or on country roads and are always surrounded by idyllic scenes filled with the really simple stuff of life: sky, earth, and living things. Like the chapter where Laurie and Jo are walking along the road and decide to race, and then Meg comes walking primly by and scolds her for not being a lady. Ha! It's so kitschy (wow, I've never written that word before...how do you spell it?) is it not? But then, I have developed a great taste for sappy, idealistic thoughts.
It also occurs to me that more than one person has mentioned feeling as though they "bailed" on the rest of us. Wow. Are there any of us who DON'T feel that way? Because I do too. I really, really do, and at times I have felt weird about getting back in touch with people because of that. So I'm so glad we're doing this. I think Hannah is right...it was just time for us to all do our own thing, and that doesn't mean we shouldn't have kept better in touch...it just sorta happened the way it did. And some of our connections "stuck" better than others, because of geography or determination or what have you. But I think it will work out better this way than if we'd really really tried to keep things going all these years. I can't speak for you all of course, but I'm truly who I am now, and can bring that into our group and know that it's truly me and not just somebody I'm trying to be. Am I making any sense? I'm such a dork.
I'm going back out to the yard now. Asher is asleep and I want to wallow in the sun because we have a nice warm week coming up and it may be the last of the year.
posted by Anonymous at 8:42 AM
2 Comments:
Ok, so you thought of 'Little Women' and I thought of 'Anne of Green Gables'! You know, how she renames the lakes and paths and even the geranium on Marilla's kitchen window! I miss being able to just walk out a door and be in my own outside space -- I can't wait to have a house with a yard so I can start a little garden, too.
Yes, yes! I thought of Anne of Green Gables too because I knew you would, and because I love love love those books. Don't they make you cry?
When you have a garden, I will send you a garden-warming gift.
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