April 18, 2011
Sunday-ness
PHOTO: via Audrey Hepburn Complex, no photographer source
I read this short editorial last week in The New York Times about the melancholy of Sunday, and thought there’s no better time to share than a Monday afternoon. It’s something I feel nearly every single week and could never hope to put into such beautiful prose. My favorite excerpt:
Posted In read upBut Sunday evening brings a feeling completely unlike, say, Tuesday evening. The slower pace on the sidewalks feels like reluctance. The traffic seems almost melancholy. You suspect that the dogs, out for the last walk of the night, can smell the Sunday-ness of it all.
Brianne
April 18, 2011 at 3:07 pmYes, but Sunday afternoon is what brings the long dark teatime of the soul.
“In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn’t cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you’ve taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.” – Douglas Adams
Kelly
April 18, 2011 at 3:11 pmwhat a great quote! i love it.
Amy@OldSweetSong
April 18, 2011 at 3:21 pmI have always struggled with the sunday blues also. What a perfect quote totally sums up that sad sunday feeling in your tummy that I know so well.
Christina {Sweet On Design}
April 18, 2011 at 4:07 pmKelly! I ventured over to Design Milk to find a new desktop image and stumbled on your beautiful work and subsequently.. your awesome blog & this post. I especially love this line of that editorial:
“but these are the moments that make living in the midst of one another feel coherent, as though the city is something we create, in collaboration, day after day.”
Glad to find your blog I look forward to keeping up with it.
Cheers,
Christina
Kelly
April 18, 2011 at 4:08 pmthanks so much, Christina!
Alexa Evans
April 18, 2011 at 11:38 pmGod how true. Course here it is Monday and now I have the Monday night blues. Though better than Sunday blues because we’re that much closer to Friday! 🙂