"do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? i always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it." ~daisy buchanan in "the great gatsby" by f. scott fitzgerald.
one of my favorite novels, favorite characters, favorite quotes. i think i mention it every year at this time, don't i?
tomorrow, june 21, is the first day of summer, the longest day of the year. i'll watch for it and hope i don't miss it. (i don't think i will...) if my parents were still alive, it would have been their sixty-fifth wedding anniversary. they were married in old lyme, ct, where they, and my grandparents, and my sisters and i, and friends and cats and i have watched so many longest days of the year.
we'll celebrate my parents, and summer...and reread gatsby and think of the green light at the end of daisy's dock.
happy summer--and happy summer reading--to all!
(i love the painting above--"summer night" by winslow homer, at the musee d'orsay in paris.)