Beach Music (2011)
“I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
During long evenings in Rome, at dinner parties full of pretty countesses, the scent of Pinot Grigio on their breaths, their laughter infectious and bright, I could find my mind drifting westward despite my promise that I would never return to my native state. But I carried Waterford around with me the way a box turtle conveys its own burdensome shell. Tender cries of homesickness would lightly echo through me until I found myself closing my eyes ...and walking the airy streets of Waterford made weightless by the buoyancy of my nostalgia.
Now, walking down Blue Heron Drive toward my father’s and brother’s law office, I found myself longing for the rough disharmony and noise of Rome. I mounted the steps quickly and made my way to the second-floor offices, which gave the appearance of the second-rate and the down-at-the-heels.
Dallas was writing on a legal pad and finished his thought before he looked up to see me.
“Hey, Jack,” Dallas said.MoreLess
During long evenings in Rome, at dinner parties full of pretty countesses, the scent of Pinot Grigio on their breaths, their laughter infectious and bright, I could find my mind drifting westward despite my promise that I would never return to my native state. But I carried Waterford around with me the way a box turtle conveys its own burdensome shell. Tender cries of homesickness would lightly echo through me until I found myself closing my eyes ...and walking the airy streets of Waterford made weightless by the buoyancy of my nostalgia.
Now, walking down Blue Heron Drive toward my father’s and brother’s law office, I found myself longing for the rough disharmony and noise of Rome. I mounted the steps quickly and made my way to the second-floor offices, which gave the appearance of the second-rate and the down-at-the-heels.
Dallas was writing on a legal pad and finished his thought before he looked up to see me.
“Hey, Jack,” Dallas said.MoreLess
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