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Tuesday, October 29, 2013


Getting in the Pumpkin Spirit 


                             

                    





My lovely roommate and I ventured to the local Pumpkin Patch yesterday and got our dosage of halloween fun for the season. What a joyous time of year it is to be a child again---- playing in the mud, picking out pumpkins, frolicking through sunflowers.
I've been pondering long and hard about why us Californians obsess over this time of year and I think I'm starting to put my finger on it. When October leaves roll in and the long awaited boots and scarves are racked out, there is a crispness that fills the air. A type of air that fills up the lungs and provides new opportunity. Opportunity to start all over again and forget about the previous season and all its troubles. An opportunity to bury the scents and memories of summer and look forward into the future. Fall gives people the chance to smell new things, like pumpkins, rain, lattes, and pine cones. It's a time to hop on a plane and reunite with old times and friends. Fall gives people newness.  New adventures, new scents, new music, new skies, new opportunity.

"It already smells like fall, and I'm glad, because the summer smelt like you."  (KeyWrites.) 

Getting in the Pumpkin Spirit

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

fading faces

Something I've realized: This is the time that friendships either sustain or drown
Just as the leaves begin falling off their branches, the ever-lasting friendships created in high school are dwindling before your eyes
people pack away their memories in boxes and ship themselves off into the unknown, you can't help but wonder: will things ever be the same?
growing up is molding people into mere photographs and memories.
the more faces I meet, the more I have to let certain ones go
so many faces
beautiful faces that are slowly fading