Now my stuff's played and his stuff ain't

[sovay]

On the one hand our after-dinner walking route may possibly have been overambitious for the amount of tired spatch and I were tonight, but on the other hand I climbed a tree.



I am honestly sorry that I did not write and direct a short film in early high school with my best childhood friend as I dreamed last night, even though part of the dream was also rewatching it as adults and wincing a lot. We had been strongly influenced by a bunch of Surrealists that I doubt I really knew about when I was fourteen.

Please, please enjoy this pop-up trombone.

Comments

[gwynnega]

That photo is beautiful.

[sovay]

That photo is beautiful.

I really like it. I spent a lot of my childhood in trees, but I have much more photographic evidence of myself around water.

[alexxkay]

You look almost as at-home in that tree as you do near the sea.

[sovay]

You look almost as at-home in that tree as you do near the sea.

I like trees a lot. I just don't seem to write about them the same way!

[thawrecka]

It's a great photo! Both you and the tree look very nice.

[sovay]

It's a great photo! Both you and the tree look very nice.

Thank you! I like the trees of the Mystic River Reservation, which is what I believe that stretch of wooded waterfront parkland is called.

[shewhomust]

Lovely photo: I like the brown hair / brown shirt / brown bark harmony!

[sovay]

Lovely photo: I like the brown hair / brown shirt / brown bark harmony!

Thank you!

[a_reasonable_man]

Dryad!

[moon_custafer]

Beat me to it!

[sovay]

Beat me to it!

Still appreciate it!

[sovay]

Dryad!

Thank you!

[cmcmck]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only so-called 'grown up' who still likes climbing trees! :o)

[sovay]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only so-called 'grown up' who still likes climbing trees!

Who doesn't like climbing trees?!

[oracne]

Tree!

[sovay]

Tree!

I like them.

[sartorias]

Oh what a lovely snap!

[sovay]

Oh what a lovely snap!

Thank you!

[selkie]

New author photo!

[sovay]

New author photo!

. . . Do I need a new book to go with it?

[asakiyume]

This is a beautiful photo. I like seeing my friends in trees; it makes me think of Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Greensky.

[sovay]

This is a beautiful photo.

Thank you. I really like it.

I like seeing my friends in trees; it makes me think of Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Greensky.

I should read that; I keep hearing about it and I never have.

[asakiyume]

It was foundational for me when I was a teen; it was the first series to bring together for me a whole lot of ideas and articulate them clearly--including, relevantly, not being able to survive if you try to hide from history.

[sovay]

it was the first series to bring together for me a whole lot of ideas and articulate them clearly--including, relevantly, not being able to survive if you try to hide from history.

Oh, neat.

I read a random assortment of her other books, including The Changeling (1970) which I think grew into Green-sky, but for some reason not that series. I have no idea why. People living in trees was exactly my thing. I loved Larry Niven's The Integral Trees (1984) and The Smoke Ring (1987) just for the worldbuilding.

[edit] My mother says I did read them, around the same time as Zenna Henderson's People stories. I'm sorry. My memory has apparently deteriorated.

[asakiyume]

No need to apologize! The things you do remember, you remember in brilliant detail that astonishes and delights me. The fact that you don't remember **everything** seems natural to me.