a message for you.
please excuse my dust as this blog site is still under construction.
you were filled with the busyness/business of assignments, with self discovery, with the still-saying-goodbye to an old friend. you were filled with long, but still too short days, with heat, with politics filling the television, radio, internet, with baseball & homegrown tomatoes & the happiness of a cat still here, despite all the odds. you, like that cat, are still here, still not yet gone, but setting like that sun above the lake, days left until it is official; tonight a party in your honor will see toasts offered to the gifts you brought us.
today is filled with joy, a bit of melancholy & anticipation hiding under our smiles & laughter. tilly~~belle the cat smells like gingerbread when i nuzzle her neck, tilly~~belle the cat smells like the last of ‘summer sunshine’. the days of strawberries and fresh okra are leaving us - already high school football games are here; driving in the earlier dark of a friday evening, i switched the car radio from station to station, smiling at the sheer number of games broadcast. after all, football is our ‘religion’. it grounds me, takes me back to my childhood - we kids watched the pregame show seated on a rock wall at the end of our street. cars filled with cheerleaders would pass us by, giggling girls, blonde hair sprayed out to here; majorettes in white boots with tassels, batons in hand, would stride by, tall & untouchable; band members would pile out of buses - traffic was everywhere, people searching for the best parking space. when the game began, we didn't need a radio, the play by play announced on the stadium's p.a. system filled the air over our heads. we would play in the darkened street, under the streetlights - the boys mimicking the players we couldn't see, we girls cheering them on, wishing for white boots with tassels that would swing oh-so-sassy when we strode by.
but that was then & that was ‘autumn’ - today is still ‘summer’, the beginning of the official goodbye, but still summer. in brunei, we have plenty of warm days ahead. but it is the last long weekend for a while, the last big gathering until hari raya & so we say goodbye now, ushering out this summer in style, next to the water, bbq, boats & bikinis.Labels: anticipation, mimick., official goodbye, oh so sassy, summer sunshine, untouchable
