The House by the Sea by May Sarton

Author:May Sarton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497646353
Publisher: Open Road Media

Friday, September 12th

CHARLES BARBER arrived with a huge paper bag containing a melon from his grandfather’s garden in Weston, a squash, peaches, pears, and got off the bus looking well and brown. We had a good day’s talk before I took him to Portsmouth for his bus back, and now he is on his way to England. With so much grief and hard luck around, it is lovely to be with someone on the brink of a great adventure, bursting with joy … and it does seem a miracle that he found a way of getting to college in England, after all.

I looked at his lovely, but unformed, face, the face of a very young man (he is nineteen) and wondered what life would do to tauten and shape it. He is so open and full of sweetness now, but thought has not yet written anything on his smooth face, nor pain tightened his mouth. I just pray that all goes well for him this year. He earned the money for the flight by being a lifeguard this summer and had a good dose of how most people live. He was teased for bringing books to the pool!

The splendor of the autumn light is beginning, the sea that dark blue (almost purple one evening), the air like champagne. One day I sat out on the terrace for almost an hour, listening to the silence, watching an occasional monarch butterfly float past, and then the birds on their way to their evening feed at the feeders. Here and there swamp maples are turning, the woods are lit up by these subtle changes, a single bright leaf here or there, the ferns beginning to pale, the bush-blueberries already bright red in leaf. There is still goldenrod everywhere, and the asters are beginning.

I am ashamed, among all this glory, of the massive weeds in the vegetable garden and am seriously considering trying the deep mulch method, eight inches of spoiled hay, so that nothing gets through except the wanted things. The flower part of the garden is also rather disorderly, but I don’t mind as it is full of color. The cosmos and marigolds go on and on.

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