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[fflo]

coming back from a long break today, i parked in the MR parking lot, next to squirrelykat, whose car, i saw, has a new antenna ball: a snowman sort of ping-pong ball, with a scarf wrapped around it. even though it looked new, and i didn't remember seeing it before, my first thought was "that's cute, jewels, but winter's almost over... he's gonna get hot in that scarf."

lost in time, lost in space.

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[shmizla.livejournal.com]

glad to hear i'm not the only one :)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

in a way it was like a brief return to a childlike state--- for i never seemed to know where we were in measured time then. if someone asked me what season it was, for instance, i could think about what month it was and then what season that belonged to, and go from there, or check out the decorations on the walls of the schoolroom, or maybe even go outside and look around and deduce what i could, but i wouldn't just know, off the top of my head.

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

in the first four grades in the land of my people, you would spend at least the first month talking about the 'signs of autumn,' including
1. which birds are going where
2. what fruits are no longer there and what we're going to eat next
3. why leaves are falling off the trees and what colors they are

once i got to fifth grade, we never talked about the kiddy stuff anymore and i never noticed the fall for years. even now i'm not always sure when it's there.