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Review of My Day -- inspired by Lapham and Cita
The campus was spring-break quiet under a clear sky, and the few remaining students gathered for desultory talks and no particular direction to their walks.
Catkins from 300-year-old oaks and pollen from young pines coated my windshield, turning my view of the world into a jigsaw puzzle of green and gold.
The young Asian man at Office Depot was impatient as I explained what size ink cartridge I needed, but I knew it was because he had to work indoors under fluorescent lights while the sweet spring warmth beckoned outside.
Harry and I exchanged fly-fishing articles that we had written for a magazine contest. His tale took me on a magical voyage to the Gunnison River in Colorado while mine rambled among North Georgia trout streams where eddies and pools hid wily trout.
The dog brought me her ball several times, her expression saying, "Look, Gita, I can't make things any plainer than this."
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Comment by bolton carley on March 23, 2011 at 8:20am -
love your ending! and love how you saw everyone else's point of views. gotta go back to read bill's here soon!
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Comment by Mike Handley on March 22, 2011 at 6:14pm -
Beautifully executed, doll.
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Comment by Cita on March 22, 2011 at 1:47pm -
Like Bill said, it is the arrangement of these sentences that make them sing. I LOVE the idea of flourescent lights making someone grouchy and the dog's simple expression of her needs. EXCELLENT! Makes me want to write one for EVERY day... but can EVERY day be magical? It can be if we choose joy.... (at least, my inner idealist wants to believe so...)
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Comment by Andrea Schnitzler on March 22, 2011 at 1:38pm -
These are beautiful, vivid images, inspired and inspiring. NICE!!!!
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Comment by Bill Floyd on March 22, 2011 at 11:20am -
I love this series. Spring has sprung.
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Comment by Diana E. Backhouse on March 22, 2011 at 10:57am -
Great piece, Gita.
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Comment by Gita on March 22, 2011 at 2:21am -
Now it's your turn, Mr. Brown. Please tell us about your day?
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Comment by Michael Brown on March 22, 2011 at 2:18am -
Gita, I read this piece first and then went to read Cita's and Bill's before coming back to comment. This is just beautiful writing. I'm taken aback by the whole of it, but found pleasure in every sentence. I am beyond happy to be acquainted with the three of you, and feel the synergy in how this theme developed for you. Truly marvelous writing.
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