on being – Orangette https://orangette.net Wed, 16 Dec 2015 06:59:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 October 23 https://orangette.net/2015/10/october-23/ https://orangette.net/2015/10/october-23/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2015 17:24:00 +0000 Last night I got to spend some time with my friend Sam. We hadn’t hung out, just the two of us, for a while – maybe not since June was born, if I really think about it. Sometime in the next month, Sam will become a dad. We’ve somehow been friends for nearly a decade. When I got into his car last night, he had R.E.M.’s Out of Time in the CD player. “Texarkana” was on. We got stuck in traffic, because it was rush hour in Seattle, but it was okay, because we were talking about being kids listening to R.E.M., Automatic for the People especially, and all the Big Feelings we were just starting to know then, feelings set…

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