the pirate summer
today when i woke up the sky was gray and the air felt like we were all at sea, humid and full and slighty cold. it was still and peaceful and it felt different. i felt like i had woken up in homer alaska, that i was back in my most favorite summer. it took me a minute or two to realize that no, that was three years ago and i am here in clackamas, halfway through a confusing and hard summer. i'm cheerful these days, but i miss everything.
i miss my alaska summer.
i miss traveling with my older sister.
i miss croatian bathrooms and coffee and pastries and streets.
i miss going on adventures with krispin.
i miss sacramento, anchorage, mexico, wyoming, auburn, sisters, montana, india, los angelas, croatia.
how does one not live in the past yet let it help shape the future?
seriously. all i want to do right now is drink coffee and look at old photo albums, remembering the grand adventures of the strannigan family. i want to remember, and i want to be assured of the future--that we will continue on in our haphazard life, never fully becoming comfortable where we are.
me and candyce decided last week that this is officially the pirate summer.
2 comments:
Speaking of pirates, a Japanese ship recently thwarted off a pirate attack. That wasn't you gals, was it?! I plan on hijacking at least one sea-faring-craft this summer if it is truly the pirate summer.
your blogs always make me feel so stinking nostalgic.
well here is what I miss:
barrel racing and broken arms
catching halibut / eating halibut
mom's smoked salmon
riding inthe bronco and shouting along to avril songs
sneaking into abandoned ski lodges
the mickel family (esp Kincade)
agnes united and sticky boots.
ah, there are so many things.
I love the summer.
its just not quite as cool when you have to work all through it.
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