We spoke by phone. I sat in my kitchen in Somerville, MA while my younger brother sat outside his home in Lynchburg, VA. After I had described my latest walk by the water and what I might write about, he said, “Mmmhmm. I think you should write some more about porches.”
“Porches?”
“Yes. About what it’s like to sit on the porch steps at night, in the quiet and in the cool, with fireflies in the distance. They look like stars.”
I imagined him sitting on his little back porch. I thought about the seeds I had sent him and his family. “Next year, I am sending you night blooming flowers.”
“That’s fine,” he said, and then he added, “And you should write about wearing glasses, how we wear them to see clearly, these wire frames that are not heavy but somehow you feel their weight all the time, and if you have long eyelashes you’re constantly batting them against the lenses. Yeah, there’s always contacts … but somehow when you wear glasses and then you sit and you take them off … you can’t see as clearly and yet there is a certain sense of freedom. A weight has been removed. Though your view is a bit blurry somehow you can see with greater clarity the beauty all around.”
“I gave you a blank notebook. Why don’t you write these things?” I say.
“Because you’re the writer,” he said.
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Nice post. Night blooming flowers sound wonderful. I’m going to check that out. Thank you.
Thanks 😉 Moon Flowers are my favorite.
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Beautiful. 🙂
Thanks 😉
> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:02:17 +0000 > To: cynthiastaples@hotmail.com >
Hi C& K Staples!
He enjoys being your muse! He is a rather vocal muse, and he really loves his job.
I suspect that he acts as muse so that you keep your activities that allow bond. Perhaps it’s similar to the couple unraveling yarn. The husband is anchor for the yarn. The wife could use inanimate object to hold yarn. They, however, would lose their together time.
K’s family will need a whole floor for themselves in our Mexico mansion. Plus the villa in Mexico needs wrap around porch with night blooming jasmine, bougainvillea and pitcher plants. The last is natural pest control!
MB
This post reminds me of the times my family and friends tell me what to write about next… without my asking for ideas… yet they don’t want to write the words themselves… Smiling now, I am smiling. 🙂