It may well have been a gust stirred up by all the activity just off the coast that day, too. I've looked back on that moment and wondered at the symbolic resonance of such a close shave with the wind, followed by the next weeks...
But we always mythologize our lives, don't we? It's what we do. We tell ourselves the stories of ourselves, and we try to make them better stories.
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Date: 2006-08-30 11:35 pm (UTC)But we always mythologize our lives, don't we? It's what we do. We tell ourselves the stories of ourselves, and we try to make them better stories.