“He is not that much older than us.”<\/p>\n
I was still not really understanding most of what you said on the first pass.<\/p>\n
“It is like a ten year difference.”<\/p>\n
Still took me another minute. Jesus.<\/p>\n
“Okay,” I said, “yeah.”<\/p>\n
I was no longer checking every sentence to see if I thought you were out of your mind. I was still checking myself though.<\/p>\n
“How do you imagine a year?”<\/p>\n
Reading it back now, that question is pretty straightforward. Yeah? But at the time, these drive-by one-liners of yours sounded like lyrics I just didn’t know, like you’d spent time on them. Still, I was coming around.<\/p>\n
“Um,” I said, “like.”<\/p>\n
Jesus.<\/em><\/p>\n “Visualize,” you said. “How do you visualize a year?”<\/p>\n “Oh,” I said, just like a real brain, “okay, yeah. Um.”<\/p>\n “You can close your eyes.”<\/p>\n “No,” I said, “it’s sort of like a wheel. Like those red toys, like the goggles.”<\/p>\n “Viewmaster.”<\/p>\n “Yeah,” I was really struggling just for this, “only that little part is visible at the top\u2026?”<\/p>\n “I get it.”<\/p>\n “Is that dumb?”<\/p>\n “No,” you said, thinking about it an awful lot for a right answer, “it is perfect, but\u2026”<\/p>\n “Except it’s dumb as hell.”<\/p>\n “Hush,” you said, “it is okay.”<\/p>\n A moment.<\/p>\n “That is a good visual,” you said, “but you think that twenty-seven of those is a lot.”<\/p>\n “Well,” I interjected pretty pointlessly, “it’s the most I can imagine.”<\/p>\n “Exactly. But that is the calendar in your memory. The calendar you know is much bigger.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “He is not that much older than us.” I was still not really understanding most of what you said on the first pass. “It is like a ten year difference.” Still took me another minute. Jesus. “Okay,” I said, “yeah.” I was no longer checking every sentence to see if I thought you were out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1724","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","content-columns-1"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"post-thumbnail-mobile":false,"post-thumbnail-full":false,"origami-slider":false,"sow-carousel-default":false,"sow-blog-portfolio":false,"sow-blog-grid":false,"sow-blog-alternate":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"boy","author_link":"https:\/\/briefbloom.com\/journal\/author\/theboy\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"“He is not that much older than us.” I was still not really understanding most of what you said on the first pass. “It is like a ten year difference.” Still took me another minute. Jesus. “Okay,” I said, “yeah.” I was no longer checking every sentence to see if I thought you were out…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briefbloom.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briefbloom.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briefbloom.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briefbloom.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briefbloom.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briefbloom.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/briefbloom.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1724\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briefbloom.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}