Archive for June, 2007
06-14-2007
Summer Nights
For someone like me whose favorite season is winter, summer can be a mixed blessing. But I’ve realized lately that I have some of my favorite memories from summer, like following the Grateful Dead up and down the east coast, having a picnic at Jones Beach as a storm moved in over the amphitheater, creating a full-arc rainbow to watch as we drove in to see Jimmy Buffet, disastrously amusing trips to the Tetons, hours upon hours spent on the tennis court, and of course, many nights spent coping with the horrifically oppressive humidity in New York City.
As bad as Manhattan got though, I sometimes miss it in the summer. While working at NYPRIG, some of us played Whiffle Ball in the pavilion in front of the now-fallen Twin Towers, whiling away late evening hours with Tall Boys and friends, all while stock brokers walked by in smiling bewilderment. Or hanging out at a late night cafe, eating torte and sipping wine on the sidewalk. Taking the train home late at night at stopping at a Korean deli for some hot food when the munchies struck. New York is unlike any place else I’ve been to, certainly anywhere else in this country, and the summer seems to bring those differences to the fore far more than winter.
I miss my friends in New York, and I miss the times we had together that seem ever more distant with each year we get older. We still talk a few times a year, trade e-mails, have a late night conversation every month or so, but it’s harder. The funny thing is though, that as we’d aged in the city, we seemed to grow more distant too, far more so than when many of us lived together and we only worried about making the rent each month and where we’d go drinking at night. It was wild and fun, and those memories remain some of the most intense.
So, for all my friends back in the great city, I’m thinking of you. :)!
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