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Six Years of A Floating Life
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Lost Chapter: The Japanese Mediterranean
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Below is a chapter I'd tried to work into the original manuscript of Six Years, but felt at the time it didn't quite fit. Looking back again, however, I admire some of the passages very much. What do you think? I love how it connects so well with the thermal springs we have so enjoyed here in Colorado; in many ways, it seems, we have brought these Read more of this blog post »
“The afternoon sunk into the tall grass growing on the roadside. The distant dome turned from coral to burnt umber, a final flash of amber as the stars unveiled themselves above. In the last light of dusk, we facemmo la scarpetta every last dish – leaving behind olive pits, an oily carcass, several rings of spilled red sulfates – and stretched our arms across the table to hold hands. As darkness fell over the valley, we walked hand in hand down that hill, our shoes rubbing the soft asphalt of what could only be the silvery full moon reflected, and watched as the dome, lit up now in its tawny wonder, lowered down behind the horizon.”
― Six Years of A Floating Life
― Six Years of A Floating Life
“A funny thing about living abroad is that what might separate us expats back home brought us closer together in China. We'd listen to their complaints about the food, their legs swelling up with the MSG, and instead of rolling our eyes as we might've thought we would at Americans complaining abroad, we listened and offered advice on where to find more palatable, familiar food. For their part, they seemed to conveniently ignore the fact that we were living together unwed, and when they'd pass by our room, door open, there was no strong feeling of judgment.”
― Six Years of A Floating Life
― Six Years of A Floating Life
“It came as a surprise to us, as I suspect it does to many, that marriage changed us. We’d felt as though we’d always had those rings, wrapped about our fingers, like the scraggly garlands of those first, revelatory conversations. But those real rings, wooden as they were, began to set their roots, and that settling, the calming feeling of having been planted into the same plot to flourish, was a relief from that once-nagging question of loneliness. No matter what happened now, even if we’d found ourselves lonelier than we’d ever been, we’d know that that plot of land was our own to cultivate. Each moment was now a dual-moment, each of our lives a dual-life. The open road, that atlas, the open-faced moon and that wine were the first conscious recognitions of our floating life. One that perhaps we’d have created on our own, but now no longer had to.”
― Six Years of A Floating Life
― Six Years of A Floating Life
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone”
― What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
― What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
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