The Impact of Movie Lines on Feelings About the Approaching Season

“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”

So goes one of my favorite lines from the 1998 Tom Hanks / Meg Ryan classic, You’ve Got Mail. Today feels like the perfect day to buy school supplies. It’s overcast and drizzly, summer is almost gone, and I just got back from a big vacation abroad. How very Bonnie Wheeler of me. (Bonnie was my medieval studies professor at university who always spent her summers in France at a monastery with her likewise professorial husband.)

There is something magical about this time of year. The urge to be intellectually and creatively productive is immense.

I also just bought a new blazer that will be perfect for fall and a puffy coat that would have been perfect for life in Boston. So the desire for autumnal weather is strong.

Go buy yourself some new pencils. It will feel good.

Film, Life, Random | August 31st, 2009

One Response to “The Impact of Movie Lines on Feelings About the Approaching Season”

  • Lucie Shuker at 11:18 am on September 7th

    Beautifully said friend. I still have my bouquet of newly sharpened pencils - one of the best gifts ever given me. It was almost instant with the advent of September. The breeze, the leaves, the sun downing earlier. I have worn my hand knitted stripy scarf and boots around happily since the 1st. I think I just feel more lovely in Autumnal colours and shapes: wollen things hanging off me etc.

    Glad you found a blazer. Picture? I also got a blazer, dress and cute cute purse at a charity shop this week xx

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