Randomly Tuesday
Posted By admin on November 15, 2011
The Beach of My Childhood (At too-dark-o'clock!)
I’ve let up on the weather talk since we finally left summer behind. Sadly, today, summer returned. I cannot approve!
Tuesday’s random photo, at right, is the beach where I grew up. I probably spent a lot more time facing the other direction, swimming. I took that lighthouse totally for granted. But those colors–I remember lying in the living room floor, looking through the wavy, glass window panes with their messy lines of putty, staring at just those colors in the sky. Orange and pink and blue, like I’ve never seen anywhere else. Sometimes I miss that sky and those moments so much I literally ache.
I downloaded Stephen King’s newest. 11/22/63. Though I know SK spent time in Lisbon Falls, ME, I missed that this book was set there. The beloved and I lived there soon after we were married. I loved that town. Small enough to walk or ride our bikes. I can remember the first November I was there, running down the street alone in the cold dark, thinking “This is where I live” with happiness. We saw Stephen King do a talk at Bates College in Lewiston, ME. Wondering if I could have the beloved hypnotized into moving back before he notices we’ve moved?
When we lived in ME, I could find any kind of beautiful music in the churches on the weekend. The choirs and local musicians performed for whoever came through the doors. Mozart’s Requiem was a pretty sure bet every Sunday afternoon, but it was a feast of plenty. I miss that, too, but I just discovered that our city’s opera is doing Lucia di Lammermoor. When we lived in Virginia, I used to go to Wolf Trap by myself with a quarter of champagne and a Napoleon from the amazing bakery near us to listen to the National Symphony or watch a play or an opera in the wild outdoors. (I also saw Rudolf Nuryev’s Cinderella, based on Hollywood in the 40s/50s, where the fairy godmother was an agent–or maybe a producer? Amazing!) Back to Lucia-I cannot wait. I only wish I could persuade the beloved or the girl to go with me!
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