This weekend my friend D came to visit. I haven't seen her in four years! She got here Friday and after I got us lost in Atlanta for an hour we came back to my house and did all our favorite things for 48 hours: ate cheese, drank wine, played Chinese Checkers and watched Eddie Izzard. It was fabulous, and I feel refreshed to have spent time with a good friend. Yesterday afternoon, we decided to venture into the basement of my house to you know, find things to do.
I started looking through boxes. I located all of the books from my childhood; all the books that I left behind when I went off to college. I found Time Windows by Kathryn Reiss, Love Story by Erich Segal, Why We Can't Wait by MLK, Jr, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water by Frances McCullough (my very first book of poetry), and my copy of Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. I cried when I found White's book. I've been looking for it for four years and loving it since I was five. It has been my favorite since seventeen years ago when I named the spider that lived in my window, Charlotte. Everytime my mom tried to kill Charlotte I would scream bloody murder and lecture her about living creatures' rights to live (apparently, I've been a social justice activist since before I could read). Anyway, the cover is coming off the book but I love love LOVE that I found it.
Recap:
Great weekend.
Alcohol and Chinese Checkers.
Recovery of Charlotte's Web.
Am a library.
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