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xiphias ([personal profile] xiphias) wrote2006-09-11 10:27 pm
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I just walked outside

I often don't leave the house for days at a time, but I just walked outside to get something from the car.

It's autumn. I walked outside and it smelled like autumn.

The first day of the year that smells like autumn doesn't just smell like autumn, it smells like every autumn. You smell that, and you don't just smell now, you smell the autumn of every year of your life, past and future. And possibly every autumn before you were born, and after you die, too.

Whenever the seasons change, you get that. Four times a year, you can smell time.

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2006-09-12 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I never have, and, much as I've liked it when I've visited there, I don't think I could give up the sharp snap of the change of seasons.