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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2024-06-21 05:18 am

What made it special made it dangerous

Our original plans to celebrate the solstice by introducing my niece to Canobie Lake were scotched by the heat dome which has been lowering over the eastern seaboard all week, so instead we stayed indoors with our slightly busted air conditioning until the late afternoon when we could celebrate [personal profile] spatch finally having shoes that were not coming literally unglued with a frozen lemonade from the Del's on Mass. Ave. and the first sushi I had eaten in almost exactly a year. I suspect I will never again see the copy of Michal Ajvaz's The Other City (1993) I did not buy from the library's floating book sale. I made a point of watering the garden for my mother and the thunderstorms arrived shortly after dark. Fortunately, it meant that after midnight the temperature had dropped almost thirty degrees and we could walk into West Medford and watch a freight train come sliding through the clanging red lights of the crossing. Once home, after much brain-racking to remember its reporting mark, we determined it had been the New Hampshire Northcoast deadheading back to Dover. In memoriam Donald Sutherland, I share—courtesy of Rob—Oddball, the irreplaceably zoned-out tank commander of Kelly's Heroes (1970). "We got our own ammunition. It's filled with paint. When we fire it, it makes pretty pictures. Scares the hell out of people." Happy solstice! The year swings on.
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2024-06-21 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
we could walk into West Medford and watch a freight train come sliding through the clanging red lights of the crossing. —-Beautiful. Makes me think of some poems I want to share with you, but I’m still not at home, still doing DW replies on the phone and fear losing this if I try to open another window , so I’ll send them in a separate comment.
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[personal profile] shewhomust 2024-06-21 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy solstice! And hooray for the break in the heat dome!
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2024-06-21 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)

happy solstice :)

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[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2024-06-21 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy solstice! And hurrah indeed for much needed storms. ♥
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[personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea 2024-06-21 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy solstice! <3 (And I approve of "Cloudbusting" as a tribute to Donald Sutherland!)
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2024-06-21 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy solstice! I am glad you got a break in the heat.