e.e. cummings

a wind has blown the rain away and blown
the sky away and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand. I think i too have known
autumn too long

(and what have you to say,
wind wind wind--did you love somebody
and have you the petal of somewhere in your heart
pinched from dumb summer?
O crazy daddy
of death dance cruelly for us and start
the last leaf whirling in the final brain
of air!)Let us as we have seen see
doom's integration.........a wind has blown the rain

away and the leaves and the sky and the
trees stand:
the trees stand. The trees,
suddenly wait against the moon's face.

November Showers

It's finally fall outside! It's Monday and we had a great November weekend with Dad visiting full of some of my favorite things: Beer, Band of Brothers, Apple Hill, Indian Food, Football, Videogames, Pizza, Snuggly Rainy Weather. We went to Salmon Falls and hung out by the river on Friday, had a throw-rocks-at-another-rock-and-whoever-hits-it-first-wins contest, (I won 2/2 beating Rachel, Dad, and Chris. Call me Lincecum.)
Saturday we went to Apple Hill, first getting a flat tire at a nasty spot in El Dorado Hills, but it all worked out. Made it up to the little fruit market before dusk and had some hot apple cider. It was so beautiful up there with the vineyards and the sunset. Then we stuffed ourselves at an old stomping ground of ours, an Indian Restaurant in Folsom. It was packed, and we later found out that they were celebrating Diwali, a Hindu holiday. It was DELICIOUS and I could eat Indian food every day of the rest of my life. They probably do that in India.
Sunday was rain, football, In n Out, Pizza, Band of Brothers mini-marathon. Love. I think I gained ten pounds this weekend!
I dropped Dad off at the airport this morning and went to Mom's; we spent all day going through boxes of photos. I have been alive 22 years and I have already done, seen, and had so much. It's unbelievable when I take a look at my life and I thank God for everything.