Comments on: Starting and Restarting http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/10/starting-and-restarting/ Ridiculous Pursuits, Solemn Matters Tue, 22 May 2012 00:42:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/10/starting-and-restarting/comment-page-1/#comment-9694 John Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:34:03 +0000 http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=5817#comment-9694 marta: I really liked the movie too -- the whole premise, and Keaton's performance. And it may have been the first thing in which I ever saw Alec Baldwin, and maybe Geena Davis too. But this scene, for me, swamps every other memory of it, and none of those people are in it. It caught me completely by surprise; even seeing it now, when I know what's about to happen, I can still recall that little pop of adrenalin. Wonderful movie moment. Darc: You've alluded to those feelings before, I think. Somewhere on the site <em>(ah: <a href="http://johnesimpson.com/blog/how-it-was-rakes-progress-excerpt/" rel="nofollow">here it is</a>)</em> I've got an excerpt from something I wrote a while back: a quasi-memoir of being a kid in a town which had that sort of fall. marta: I really liked the movie too — the whole premise, and Keaton’s performance. And it may have been the first thing in which I ever saw Alec Baldwin, and maybe Geena Davis too. But this scene, for me, swamps every other memory of it, and none of those people are in it. It caught me completely by surprise; even seeing it now, when I know what’s about to happen, I can still recall that little pop of adrenalin. Wonderful movie moment.

Darc: You’ve alluded to those feelings before, I think. Somewhere on the site (ah: here it is) I’ve got an excerpt from something I wrote a while back: a quasi-memoir of being a kid in a town which had that sort of fall.

]]> By: DarcKnyt http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/10/starting-and-restarting/comment-page-1/#comment-9655 DarcKnyt Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:41:35 +0000 http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=5817#comment-9655 I've always loved this time of year for the sense of renewal it brings me. I can't define that, can't explain it at all to someone. Most people are content to believe spring is the beginning, the awakening time. And I can't argue that, don't care to, but there's something refreshing and reinvigorating about autumn for me. The images the poetry called up in my mind reminded me of that. Some of the happiest times I experience tend to be in autumn, not because bad things don't happen to me during autumn, or because autumn's been free of heartache for me, but because despite those things my mindset is lighter, happier. Once I moved to the Midwest from the west coast, I realized it was weather-related in a lot of ways. The winters here are too extreme (and the summers are too, for that matter) for me, and spring brings too many ailments and allergy- and sinus-related headaches. The world is warming. But in autumn things cool down and that's a start of a good, exhaling-in-relief time for me. I have no idea why. But the images of the rakes and leaves and such brought in the happy feelings of autumn and cool, wet weather, and good smells and warm clothes and comfortable times. Strange, I know. Have a great weekend, John. I’ve always loved this time of year for the sense of renewal it brings me. I can’t define that, can’t explain it at all to someone. Most people are content to believe spring is the beginning, the awakening time. And I can’t argue that, don’t care to, but there’s something refreshing and reinvigorating about autumn for me.

The images the poetry called up in my mind reminded me of that. Some of the happiest times I experience tend to be in autumn, not because bad things don’t happen to me during autumn, or because autumn’s been free of heartache for me, but because despite those things my mindset is lighter, happier.

Once I moved to the Midwest from the west coast, I realized it was weather-related in a lot of ways. The winters here are too extreme (and the summers are too, for that matter) for me, and spring brings too many ailments and allergy- and sinus-related headaches. The world is warming. But in autumn things cool down and that’s a start of a good, exhaling-in-relief time for me.

I have no idea why. But the images of the rakes and leaves and such brought in the happy feelings of autumn and cool, wet weather, and good smells and warm clothes and comfortable times.

Strange, I know.

Have a great weekend, John.

]]> By: marta http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/10/starting-and-restarting/comment-page-1/#comment-9652 marta Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:11:28 +0000 http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=5817#comment-9652 Ah, that added a smile to my rainy day. Love Beetlejuice! Ah, that added a smile to my rainy day. Love Beetlejuice!

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