summer lovin’

15Jul09

had a late night but woke up bright and early to the sound of cicadas – the first of the season. you need no surer sign that summer has arrived. i learnt about cicadas in japan, where before, they used to exist only in storybooks, city girl that i am. did you know that a single cicada could produce enough sound to make it seem like there was an entire forest of them out there?

lying on my white, white bed, staring out at the white, white sunlight out there – so dazzling i see stars… i find the sound of the cicadas comforting. even in the 34-degree heat. it’s that whole association of cicadas, and summer, with childhood. even though i don’t remember if i had ever heard a cicada in my entire life as a child. not that it matters. memories are the stuff that you make up, in your head, and not what really, actually transpired. and that is why they hurt so.

i am going to traipse downhill now for my dinner greens, and possibly get even more sunburnt on the way. what does it matter? it’s summer.

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