8.07.2004
my brother's perfect duluth day
I'm a little scared to post for the first time ever, but after some gentle coaxing from predicate nominative, I have decided to share something with you that made me smile a little and cry a little. I just received my first letter in the mail from Pat, my little brother who has been in Iraq for about two months now. Here is an excerpt from that letter, talking about when he drove up to Duluth to visit me right before he left:"I always liked the part of the road right when you can first see the city. Way up top where it kind of shakes all the way down, before you get to all the different tunnels and exits. You can see the different industrial and manufacturing sites. All the lights and then the vast view of Superior- all of this at night. I had a randomly burned CD in, and REM's 'nightswimming' came on right as you see the whole view and I thought, 'hey, what if someone is night swimming in Superior right now?' It would be cold. Real cold. I have that song on my MP3 player here and whenever I hear it this is exactly where my mind goes and I can picture everything perfectly. That's my favorite part of Duluth. It's kind of like I've got a little piece of home I can go to whenever I want."
That's his perfect duluth day.