Descent and the Linden Tree

Preparing to leave

I’m putting all my things back in the suitcase they came from, closing up the little room that was mine for a few weeks and saying goodbye to the summer green around me. Washing clothes, folding and arranging them as lightly as possible in my bag, writing up a wallet-sized budget sheet and making sure all my accounts are in order - because Boston is tomorrow, and then the Bronx a few days later. 

I hope that I am saying goodbye to this summer green, because I want to start my seventh semester in New England before it turns to autumn. There’s no way to know yet, but I can say that today I have my daily bread. And for that, I can be glad. It’s enough, and that’s important. What Tala wrote reminds me of thoughts that went through my head this morning, propped up in bed with a headache but reading about Denmark, all the while looking over my next two months and thinking about the different places I’ll be.

talaazar:

i’m watching manhattan across the water. the lines of her sky make such a fine figure.

the clouds are passing over the city in slow migration from the northwest to the southeast. they remind me of camels in a royal procession, carrying silent monarchs. they do look like they are on a pilgrimage,…

(Source: littlegreendays)