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David's avatar

Hot days in the community garden, fixing the lock on the shed, grilling veggies on CSA pickup nights and our friend Amelia teaching my 11-year-old sun about infixation. Going up to Millerton for the opening of the Ancestral Heart Zen Monastery and my wife showing us the Swoon Armada raft hidden in the forest. Tomatoes with all the colors in the rainbow in them dropping from vines in our plot. I used to hate tomatoes and now they are how I understand how plants grow from the ground and pull up nutrients because they taste like the sun and dirt and rain, all at once. They taste like summer.

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Dani Cirignano's avatar

David, wow. *Runs off to google "infixation..."

(also: Swoon Armada!?)

I always felt similarly about tomatoes. But when they're good, there's nothing else like them.

Love you.

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David's avatar

Infixation as in "unbefuckinglievable" - she was teaching Arlo the proper way to bisect a word and insert f-bombs in the middle.

And the armada: https://bit.ly/2BQxtKk

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Catherine Davis's avatar

Wandering around the West Village with my best friend of 30 years. Eating, sweating, complaining about how hot it was and how much NYC has changed. Frizzy hair, blisters. The BEST Cacio e Pepe at Via Carota for dinner. squeezed in on a little 2 top, happy. Riding the subway back to BK, people watching, talking, talking, talking.

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Dani Cirignano's avatar

my heart is bursting.

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Faith's avatar

The two things that stood out: one I can still do and continue to do every week, which is hiking and looking for wildflowers. The other not so much. Weekly community concerts in the park are cancelled, of course, but watching a few videos from last year made me smile. Also noted were some four leaf clovers I found next to a lovely stream and pictures of my parents new cat climbing the fruit trees in their orchard. "Summer On" friends!!

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Dani Cirignano's avatar

these images are the sweetest <3

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Lori Z.'s avatar

Last July last year was so much more eventful! Highlights include: going to a Backstreet Boys concert (they were my first concert and I saw them again 20 years later!); getting $5 Friday smoothies with my best friend (this was so mundane then and would be such a big outing now!); and attending the 50 year celebration of Apollo landing on the moon at the National Mall (they projected video footage of the landing on to the Washington Monument!). My, things have really changed.

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Dani Cirignano's avatar

wow Lori! This just filled my heart with so much joy. reminds me of a high school summer - easy and free and full of smoothies and backstreet boys.

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