Apr 21, 2006 22:47
I went for a walk tonight. It's a good thing to do every now and then. I was coming back from watching a friend's theatre performance and I figured I would swing down through brookline on the way home. That kind of a walk has been missing in my life; a recreational stroll both calm and exciting. Looking at the large, clean houses and the well kept sidewalks reminded me of home perhaps. Allston is a crowded, dirty, noisy reality where school and work and rent and bills all exist. I have no bills to pay in Brookline. The entire walk was encased in a glorious silence until the approach on Comm Ave where the shouts of friday nights echoing from the bars become audible. It seems like it's been so long since I've heard a silence like that.