“Sotto Voce I: Umbrellas for the Sun”
Narrator: Steve Matthews
Date: June 28th
Wake up.
Every morning I find myself met with these same walls, this same town, these same people. I imagine what you might be doing. Off on some adventure in the big city. Finding new love. New purpose. The memoir is coming along nicely. No idea if these musings will make it into the final product. I suppose I’m just gathering evidence of my existence. Painting these portraits of solitude for an audience of one, to populate an art gallery that doesn’t exist, and that no one would visit.
I wasn’t always this way. We… were not always this way. I remember that vacation we took to Phoenix. The summer heat belting down on those wide city streets. We saw tourists from overseas carrying umbrellas for the sun. We laughed, but they were the smartest people in the room. As we walked to every interesting landmark and shop that caught our attention, I kept noticing the unmistakable twinkle in your eye. The call of something more than the small town we inhabited, and the mundane existence it demanded. I guess I should have known, even then.
Well, even with the strangers who come and go, you occupy my mind. I suppose I’ve become the the embodiment of our motto:
Loved you then.
Love you still.
Always have.
Always will.
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