Friday, 18 May 2007
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Last Friday
This is my last Friday night in my first big city apartment. I'm moving to another building, closer to the lake. Higher up. Fewer trees in view. More sky. Sketchier building. Lower rent. I'm looking into these apartments across the alley and the courtyard for the last time. Lives lived in such close proximity and at such a distance. More than their human inhabitants, it is the colors of the walls in these apartments -- white-white -- textbook blue -- mossy green; it is the artwork hanging there -- an oversized black and white canvas screened with a picture of Billie Holiday -- a large wooden spoon on a kitchen wall -- visible through windows; it is the color of the light coming through the blinds -- the Billie Holiday apartment has recently switched entirely to the cool blue-white of eco-friendly bulbs -- a lady across the courtyard who has lived here for twenty years gives off a thin dingy yellow -- the rotating college boys in the basement bright overhead light at all hours; it is with these which I have become intimately acquainted. I will miss these.
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Mavis,
This layout is gorgeous. When are you going to put up a new post? I was thinking about linking to you. Would you mind?
Theresa
Hello Ms. J-M,
I like your site that you worked hard to make simple yet elegant. The pictures are a nice touch. I see that you don’t have much to say lately!
I like to write articles about God and religion on my site to help people to really get to know God, especially in these troubled times: 14 "When the good news about the kingdom has been preached all over the world and told to all nations, the end will come." (Matthew 24:14) (CEV (Luke 11:9-10) I hope you get a chance to look at them.