I Say It's Alright

Chicago looked like this last Saturday. I took a Polaroid.

There's this scene in the Parent Trap (Lindsay Lohan edition) that I watched a million times this summer curled up in my flat in Scotland, (seemingly) dying of mono (which I just thought were terrible allergies at the time), where American Lindsay goes to her mother's fashion studio in London and begins playing with the crystals. Here Comes the Sun comes on, and there's something kind of magical about the combination of the Beatles and glittering crystals and being wrapped in motherly love that the scene presents. I feel like that now.

River Walk on Wacker Drive

I see this everyday. Such is student life in a library.

It's been approximately 180 days since it has been this warm in Chicago, and I love it. During winter, the trees and ground hold their breath and then it snows and then the sun comes and they exhale into blossoms and warm rain showers and green grass. Winter brings the kind of peace that stems from resignation. Spring brings peace that stems from hope.

There wasn't even any rain! Just a rainbow!

What's really exciting, to me at least, is that I can talk about my graduation without wanting to throw a tantrum for the first time since July. I will be dead and gone, as one friend put it, come May, but it will be such a good kind of dead and gone. I've had an amazing collegiate career, have been given the best group of people to live with I could have ever asked for, and the sun came out in Chicago. All I can do is be thankful.

Cake at Magnolia Bakery, from that sunny Saturday in Chitown

I feel as if I've been wrapped up in love and warmth, and the wind through the pines and buds sound almost like the music of wind chimes, and the Beatles are playing on the fresh lawn. All the good things in life came up to me, shook my hand, and stored themselves in my heart and memory, and I get to carry them with me like jewelry. My life is only beautiful things.

Wacker River Walk

Photo shoot in a Mall.

Beautiful things, and SUNSHINE.

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Snappin' a friend with the good news.