Rhymes With The Familiar

Storm clouds threaten behind the Holiday sign on Highway 3.  Beside the gas station, the old dairy is transforming into a brewery.  Milk into beer.  I just dropped you off at daycare in a collared shirt, striped green and orange and brown.  You didn...

 Grey and windy and frothy today.  All of the leaves on the sidewalks scuttling and all of the leaves on the trees torched and seething.  It feels exactly like October today but yesterday felt like mid-August, like we were on the verge, all over again...

You are likely currently submerged at least partially in water, your backside weighed down by the sog of a swim diaper.  Your sister is likely saying "Daddy, Daddy, watch this" somewhere relatively nearby, then jumping off a ledge into deeper water or...

Another beautiful day in Northfield.  Yesterday we watched giant excavators pull up bits of Second street.  Their noises were so loud and their immensity so overpowering that you, sweet boy, did not feel comfortable standing alone to watch.  You settled...