scenes I hope will flash in front of my eyes before I die

I wrote a bunch of these last week, but then I didn’t post and now I can’t find them. So here we go again. Sophie … a bunch of ours will overlap. Obvy.

1. Wandering the Stanford campus with Katie, singing choir songs … especially in the parking garage, where the echoes made our harmonies sound freakin’ awesome. “The water is wide …”

2. Helping Soren practice walking on a Spring day in 2005, at Mac.

3. Eating, drinking, smoking & laughing hysterically with Mark, Luis, Nick & Sophie in May, 2007.

4. Playing “guess the Beatle” with certain someones.

5. Floating for hours in the lukewarm ocean at Hermosa Beach with my brother.

6. Shabbat at haKotel, summer 2006, joining a ring of joyous dancing women as the sun set, and feeling something I hadn’t felt before … and haven’t felt since.

7. Water-sliding & rope-swinging with Grace & Sovigne at the Y in Minneapolis.

8. Sitting on a balcony in Amsterdam with Miranda.

9. Summer days on the roof, playing the guitar badly and singing (quite well).

10. Taking a walking tour through a historic neighborhood on a sunny day in beautiful Jerusalem, and being able to understand the (very basic) Hebrew.

11. Playing that Brahms clarinet sonata with Andy in his recital and really nailing it.

12. Driving four hours to Atlanta to see Bob Dylan, the size of a caterpillar on the stage. Awesome.

13. Watching Help! for the first time in ten years with another Beatlemaniac.

14. Drinking wine in Florence and tipsily finding our way back to the hotel.

15. Playing in a ragtime festival in Boulder, 2001, in between two professional pianists, both of whom told me how much they enjoyed my music.

16. Coming up out of the train station in Paris into the most beautiful city EVER.

17. Smoking with my dad … Coffeeshop Rockland.

18. Driving Sarah home every day junior year and playing Mario Kart until our thumbs hurt.

19. Sitting in the backyard of our house, with a good book & enjoying the sun, surrounded by our animals: cat, dog, bird, bunny.

20. Grieg songs in our apartment, and Sophie cursing at the obnoxious people outside who didn’t appreciate the music we were making.

21.  Climbing up Masada and standing at the top.

22.  Whiskey and easy, four-chord songs, Marshall Ave, St. Paul.

23.  Decorating our favorite teapot.

24.  Kirk + music + hysterics x almost every day of junior & senior years.

25.  Webcam pictures with a variety of people, children and adults alike.

That’s it for now. I was up at 5:30 and I must sleeeeeeeep soon.