I mentioned to Alexander the other day that weather like this makes me feel academic. I was sitting the other night in my study, with the door facing out onto the sunken patio open to the early autumn breeze, cooled by a lightly falling rain. I sat at my desk, resisting the temptation to turn … Continue reading et in arcadia ego…
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why i hate the fall…
After an unrelentingly hot summer, the weather in Bloomington is now balmy and overcast, the air a dreamy sixty-five degrees. The early feelings of fall waft in the breeze, and with them memories of autumns past, swaddling me in a familiar melancholy, an ache I can't easily dismiss. I have too many ghosts in this … Continue reading why i hate the fall…