The bleak expanse of the frosted plains filled my driver’s side window as I sped home. It was an unusually dismal day, no sunshine to distract me from the frigid cold. As I drove the familiar street, one I had walked many times as a younger person, my eyes were drawn to the church in the distance, the church I had attended every Sunday for a decade that felt long ago. I remembered that we had buried my brother’s cat in the field behind that church and that before he was placed in the earth my dad had wrapped him in a pair of my old jeans. They were my very first pair of Levi’s and they were coloured a sage green colour and they were a men’s size 36 waist. I got them when I was 12 years old and really fat.
Funny, the things that end up in the ground.
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I think I may remember those pants. My green sweater that turned yellow in the armpits when I got warm was another remnant of that long-lost era.
Ah, Happy Valentine’s Day, Amanda.
They made sage green Levi’s?
;)
Red Dirt Road: Yes, don’t you remember the era of the coloured jean? I also had a pair of deep purple ones, and my friend had some in ruby red. Classy.
This is so good it reads like fiction.
I had a fushcia (sp?) pair. And a green pair :)
See you soon?
I had a purple pair, a light blur pair, a yellow pair(yes yellow), a green pair, AND a red pair. I wuz COOL MAN!
that’s a great story! i love remembering stuff like that.
You really should consider writing a book – you would make a very interesting, colourful and humourous writer!
You are a good writer Amanda….I wonder if they have disentegrated by now (and I wonder if I spelled that right??)
You’re awesome (This is will but Slack agrees)
Got to love the colored jeans, I too had a variety of lovely Levi’s.
I had and LOVED red jeans. oh, how I wish those wouldn’t have gone out of style.
My e-mail isn’t working but I wanted you to see this:
http://entertainment1.sympatico.msn.ca/TV_Guide/TVNews/Articles/130207_greysanatomy_GD
YIKES!
Yay on burying them!
As all good jeans of the 80’s and 90’s should be….buried deep, deep, DEEP in the good earth. That was funny and sad all at once.
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