She says I'm not really like her father or terrible men, and I tell her how I've been thinking further about her hurt. Summer in Oberlin is similar to fighting with Julie in that summer here is in many respects about valuing people. You are happy to run into people in town because there are fewer people around. There is more to catch up on. Events with friends are fewer and more significant.
Life is consumed more slowly and more deliberately.
That brings me to the eyes I mentioned in the first line and have been wanting to explain. They belong to a farmer I spoke with. Clear, light blue, deep, earnest eyes. I got to see them because I have a job interviewing farmers for the environmental-studies program. Gathering stories and local history.