happy birthday, big brother

nate & robin, nantucket island. july 2009



today is dedicated to

NATHAN LARGESSE,

the best brother of all time,
now twenty three years of age,
who i love with all of my heart,
who will do beautiful incredible things and make daring attempts and successes and have immense happiness as the giant squid of the largesse family.
happy birthday, nate. thank you for being my brother.


love,
elise

been missing porches, real mailboxes

long pond docks, nantucket massachusetts



it's really hitting me now, that this is the final push towards the Rest of my Life, i have a couple weeks til the GRE's, have to write my rationale, my IAPC, present my colloquium, get fluent in those 25 books, figure out if those teeth growing in can stay there, get some lenses because i can't see anything and stay healthy stay sane stay good stay kind.
some days i wake up and walk in the city and know i could never leave it
and some days i wake up and think i could never stay here
can i just take you all with me, we'll have a house with a veranda in iowa city or oaxaca,
i just don't know if i can trust a small town again after a big town brought me you.

there's sand on you let me get it

madaket, nantucket MA july 2009


so i'm back from my one month leave which was so much quieter and so much more exciting than the new york city
things are loud and slow now
things are manhattan now
eighty degrees and the hot sun air puts me to sleep but i'm rested
i'll get back to the rhythm i promise.

holy days

home, 12.08



happy holidays, everyone. that means your holiday, too. i hope everyone's days are going as well as mine. times like these make me feel like the luckiest person i can imagine. and luckily enough that sort of thing is almost limitless-

love,
elise

the first night

nate, massachusetts. 12.22.08




it was dusk and we
knew at that moment that we
would survive, twig us



because nate was a snow centaur, the head and hands of the entire earth