A Few Summers Ago
I signed up to help my uncle at my mother’s behest. His house near the beach was roomy enough, the old sycamores lining the street, white and yellow, gave some shade throughout the summer. The ocean nearby, and the beach full of treasures, shells and scraps, a nice expanse to look out upon, and the wind to hide from with intonations of the ancestral voices that the house foretells. If walking with the sun is enough for the day, the sleep and dream is too much for the night. It was not long before I missed my friends, and the disorder of my uncle left me resentful, and with feelings of unsettledness and confused mind the void and passive disorder propelled me to movement and wreck. I wanted to get away with all my heart, and I thought I could return, I thought I could. Did I take upon myself too much sickness, too much of the void, did I stare too long at the sun? How can I control or balance a self I could not understand that wished to escape its surroundings? How could I reach a true ...