🍂 Autumn Memories

My brain has always done a thing in which it attaches certain memories to other things, such as songs. Most of the time, the songs have nothing to do with the memory they’re attached to, other than that I heard that song on that day…and my brain connected the two.

It’s a strange thing.

It’s isn’t just memories and music, though. My brain also attaches memories to seasons, most notably, autumn. And since that’s our current season, I’ve been thinking about the memories attached to it quite often lately.

What might some of these be? Well, since you asked…

In my brain, Autumn is attached to the following memories, many of which are from my years living in Milwaukee:

• Sitting in the quad on the UWM campus and enjoying the cool breeze as I catch up on class reading.
• Buying a large Turtle Mocha from The Grind (UWM’s campus coffee shop) and heading into the upper floor library stacks to study and write.
• Riding a city buses to my internship at Metroparent Magazine.
• Attending the best class I’ve ever had at any institution: The Life & Work of Edgar Allan Poe.
• The scent of warm apples and cinnamon.
• Walking up and down Silver Spring Drive in Glendale/Whitefish Bay on Saturday mornings (and buying Freedom Bread from Breadsmith while there).
• Walking the few blocks from my apartment to campus through a whirlwind of falling leaves.
• The smell of freshly-carved pumpkins.

It’s an interesting mix of things, and I’m sure others would think nothing of these memories. But I’m glad I have them as strange as they may be.