Strange, I can't remember many facts about September from when I was a child in White Rock, BC. I must have started school each year. I can remember going to school but actual September days are all fogged over.
Halloween memories are still there but for September, nothing. I can't even remember what the weather was like. Today I was thinking how I would like to be on the beach again, it's so sunny in Ottawa and the sun feels hot through the window, but was it hot enough when I was a child to go swimming? I just don't remember.
Sometimes I took my dog down to the beach. Cindy loved to swim and fetch sticks that I would throw out into the ocean. So dogs could swim.
There's no way to swim outside in Ottawa in September.
It's like this start-of-school year month is a gear-up for everything else that goes on the rest of the year. Halloween, Remembrance Day and Christmas/New Years to name a few.
I find this month slow and at times, boring. The other night I had so little to do, I was trying to recall the Brady Bunch lyrics. You have to be pretty bored to think up that.
If Mom were still alive, she'd say, "why don't you write?" But I'd already written.
The one thing that's still with me about September from my childhood, is that it feels new. It feels like a beginning. Like something possibly wonderful is going to happen at any moment.
I guess then the only thing I recall from Septembers of my childhood are the feelings about it. Which is nice enough.
My e-book, The Mountain City Bronzes is still available at the MuseItUp Bookstore
http://museituppublishing.com/bookstore/index.php/now-available-in-ebook/the-mountain-city-bronzes-detail
For me, September was a hot time of the year to be sweating in new school clothes and wondering what happened to a summer that had once felt endless.
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