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Allison Burnett's avatar

"Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year." This line from Millay popped into my head as I read your essay, savoring the feeling that I was being stabbed to death by beauty. I try so hard to deny mortality and you make it impossible. Thank you.

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Summer Brennan's avatar

💙💙💙 sorry!

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alice-ann hoefkens's avatar

Beautiful piece of writing. Poignant. I am in the orange grove, the long grass, feel the soft sunning joy of it and the expirare... everything comes to an end, but we have had it and it remains in the dust of us. Thank you for writing it.❤️

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Summer Brennan's avatar

"it remains in the dust of us" this is so beautiful. Thank you xo

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alice-ann hoefkens's avatar

Thank you - you inspired me ❤️

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Jennifer Molidor's avatar

What a wonderful piece. It is very visual, which I appreciate, from the monthly flash of red to dusty paths above the ocean, to the blissful summer outside, always outside, doing nothing, beautifully nothing, but everything, with a simple life of famous painters and a soft love without ambition.

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Summer Brennan's avatar

Thank you 💜

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Laura La Sottile's avatar

Wonderful 🩵 so many layers...

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Summer Brennan's avatar

Thank you Laura xo

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Michelinne Odette's avatar

Gorgeous. As you said, impressionistic. In the form, the cadence, rhythm. You painted with words and the emotion lingers so beautifully in the end.

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Summer Brennan's avatar

Thank you so much Michelinne xo

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Jane Hammons's avatar

I saw a Morisot show in Houston a couple of years ago, had loved her painting for ages but had never seen anything but prints. Your essay makes Julie very alive for me.

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Summer Brennan's avatar

Thank you. I loved researching them. I hope to write more about Morisot.

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Ramona Davey AKA Mo's avatar

So enjoyed reading every word of this!

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Summer Brennan's avatar

Thank you!

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Carina Grasbeck's avatar

Utterly beautiful. And reading this made me cry a bit.

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Summer Brennan's avatar

Thank you 💕

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Billy Mann's avatar

Beautifully written. I was not familiar with her work or life but this essay made me interested and I’m glad I came across it. She passed 129 years ago tomorrow. Grief has no bounds. Well done Summer.

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Francine Lucidon's avatar

Reading this beautiful piece I could hear brush stokes upon a canvas. Wonderful!

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Colu Henry's avatar

Beautiful.

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Ernest Troost's avatar

Wonderful piece, Summer.

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Summer Brennan's avatar

Thank you!

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Jennifer Edewaard's avatar

Love this, what beautiful words on grief at the end. Just adored this deeply.

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Summer Brennan's avatar

💙

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Glenda Burgess's avatar

💛!

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Kate Bown's avatar

A beautiful essay Summer. I could imagine myself there with Julie and the green bird in the cage, under all those oranges.

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Michelle Neeling's avatar

Absolutely heartbreakingly beautiful. 💕

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Summer Brennan's avatar

Thank you!

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