we are going to kentucky, my friends, and are to return on the twenty-seventh with but seven days of summer vacation left. a bleak thought, that--but made less so with the idea of the sweaters and socks and hot chocolates and corduroys that quickly approach.
am excited.
also, add to that list of wintry things sufjan's christmas songs. um, yes. am i the only one who secretly listened to said music in the middle of july? ahhh. couldn't help myself. (i still sneak a "sister winter" or "star of wonder" every now and then... b-e-a-u-t-y. why should these songs be neatly packaged within a particular month-long season? it's blasphemous.)
never been to kentucky before. i'll see what i can discover down there, à la ponce de leon. it can't be quite as nice as maryland, because we had the first umbrella factory, but we'll see. jedd reckons they maybe speak a different language down there.
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Are you sure about that 1st umbrella factory thing? Cause as a child my grandparents lived around the corner and up the hill from an umbrella factory in Connecticut and I always have been under the impression that THAT was the 1st umbrella factory! Of course it may just be that it was the only umbrella factory I ever knew of and so assumed...Across the street was the most wonderful knitting factory where my mom took me every September for new school cardigans. It had wide pine floorboards and a great smell..wooly, you know. And you could hear the knitting machines clanging in the factory side of the building. I wish I had somewhere like that to take you so you could have these memories too...ah...feeling wistful...Love, mom
I enjoyed O Come, O Come Emmanuel sung last week in church. That was pretty Christmas-y. Not quite ready for the cordouroys but I do have a new LL Bean fleece that will fast become a favorite.
Had to check-out your blog since Faith has a link to you.
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girl you cannot listen to christmas songs in july! such a confusing way to live..those songs make christmas so much more beautiful and charming. little self control darling. but i love that you love beautiful things.
christmas music all year round. I am undecided on how I feel about that. A lot of Christmas songs are so beautiful, but, then--if you listen to them all the time it steals some of the preciousness of listening to it in the Christmas season. Hm.
Have fun on your escapade into a new place. (:
Annie!!! I just read your post about being at HOME THIS YEAR. You know what this means?? MORE THAN TWICE A YEAR I WILL GET TO SEE YOU. probably. :)
Want to be on our volleyball team in Salisbury?? ;)
Call me, lovely, and we should set something fun up. :)
okay, okay, guys, just a sec. i don't mean to say i listen to all christmas songs all the whole year 'round. really just those two in particular, and they don't even sound christmas-y.
"star of wonder" (not the traditional version--suf's is an entirely different song) doesn't even really reference christmasness at all unless you think about it very hard. it's so anthemically wonderful. i can't help it.
and "sister winter" only says "happy christmas" at the end, and then he might as well be singing anything at all. he could be singing "happy birthday" or "happy saint patrick's day" and it would be equally lovely and nonsensical.
--and i liked that we sang "o come, o come emmanuel" last week too, mrs. taylor! my other point: why should singing about the birth of our saviour be confined to one season? eh?
...and all that long defense to basically admit that yes, i maybe just love beautiful things.
but really, you won't find me listening to any bing-crosby-white-christmas stuff mid-august. no worries.
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