This sounds like … (part 4).
(AUDIO: Summertime by the Sundays)
1. The sunlight of optimism.
2. Skateboarding down hilly streets / talking on the phone.
3. Smiling at strangers who smile back without explanation.
4. The way people watch expectantly when you blow out birthday candles in the exciting dark.
5. Holding hands in the Central Park Zoo.
6. The hot cold of looking down from the top of a mountain.
7. Clean notebook paper and a poised ink pen.
8. Yoga as marketing imagery.
9. The satisfaction of a completed collection.
10. The leaping rhythm of conversation with someone you like and literally just met.
11. A beautifully margined page.
12. Playing spin-the-bottle at a wedding.
13. Judy’s dream of horses with no yellow-star nazism.
14. Falling asleep in public places.
15. Talking about Nick Drake.
16. Eating peeled oranges.
17. College radio before it became angry and pretentious.
18. J.D. Salinger before it became required reading.
19. Riding in trains, for the love of trains.
20. Being the only one in the subway car not wearing black.
21. Loving irony without marketing value.
22. Being earnest with strangers.
23. Being generous when its out-of-fashion.
24. Cutting your own hair.
25. Washing your clothes by hand.
