Summer Recap
Thursday, September 28th, 2006Originally uploaded by maylingsu.
Our plum tree was so heavy with clusters of fruit weighing the branches down and hitting my head everytime I walked past it. Juicy delicious! Wee one learned to say, “Pit!” and take the plum pit out with tiny fingers smeared with dark red fruit ooze. There were so many plums we had to give bags of them away to neighbors and friends.
The CD album of the summer was Life Pursuit by Belle and Sebastian. Wee one loves music and demands “Po’ Boy, Po’ Boy,” more formally known as “White Collar Boy,” every waking hour.
The book of the summer was “Where The Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak. I read that book aloud with howls and grunts every night. A close second was “The Missing Piece” by Shel Silverstein, parts of which I sing with my own made-up melody. It gave me a lump in my throat the first time I read it through and Wee One picked up on it and wept. I am amazed at our psychic connection. The few times I’ve left the house alone, Jay told me that from sound slumber, Wee One wakes running toward the front door crying, “Mama!”
I got a new old book today titled “Story of the Eye” by Georges Bataille. (Thanks, Pris!!! :-D) I’m loving it! Chapter Twelve dealt with the similar confessional fantasy I had written about (it’s a classic!), only this 1928 pornographic prose is so much nastier and radically more irreverent than I allow myself to be.
We’re getting the last of the hot sunny days here in the SF Bay Area. We need to figure out where we’re going and what we’re doing soon. I posted photos I took around our home, a coin tossed toward the stars with a wish for the future.



