Last night we skipped down the middle of Chestnut street screaming the wizard of oz at the top of our lungs and basking in the wonderful feeling of having no one about.
S walked behind us.
“You gotta do it when youre young.” He said when he finally caught up with us.
Here the wisdom is as old and unpolished as the hills surrounding us. Life’s beautiful tragedies, cold weather, hot coffee, warm fires, laughing, comradeship, beers. Things seem more vivid, more real, here.
And there is sadness because of this. A deep quiet sadness that wells up because of the lack of shine that cities gloss on. In peering into the vacant abyss of our life every grand stretch of darkness is revealed, wide arching bouts of loneliness. Like driving from Stockbridge to Lenox, in between each small spattering of warm lights and main streets, there is nothing – just cold pavement, windy roads, pure darkness and the feeling that you’re floating into nothingness. Your feet might leave the ground. You might never understand anything ever again.
You might just keep spilling your heart at every old corner and leaving dripping trails behind you where you go, making it a routine until your whole world is raw and red and your whole body is ripped open with feeling.
I think mostly you’re like a faint star cluster, like the seven sisters. The kind that you can only see if you look a little away from the cluster itself, once you stare directly at it you are blinded by the lack of perspective and faintness of the glow. Only when staring slightly away from the stars do they reveal themselves.
Why is it socially more offensive to be a vocal liberal than a vocal conservative?
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“What we are is created by the hardships and mistakes we make. If we were looking for someone to take our boat through an area of the ocean known for its storms, we would want someone who had been through tough seas before, perhaps even been in a boat sinking due to his/her mistake, not someone who never made one.”
TYM has 1 MONTH!
Obsessed.
“adventures around europe and berkshire county ma”
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