Ready for October (Taylor’s Version)
It is something that has always been just mine.
Topic
memoir
Witnessed events, sure, but mostly the broiling emotions in years subsequent to said events.
The Cathedral
Scott is sitting in a pew, bathing in spacious light when the feeling returns.
Bagels in Childhood
What poppyseed bagels from East Rock Breads make me think of.
A Return to Form
My headphones on, I sat and played along for 45 minutes with my atrophied muscle memory and the practice only made for years on the steering wheel or desk.
Clarifying My Sobriety
Without explicitly saying I was ‘sober’, people offering me a cold one were free to interpret my qualified response any way that worked for them. “You still on that no-beer diet?” was my favorite from work.