Comments on: Seventeen Years https://jillmorrow.net/seventeen-years/ THE NOVELS OF JILL MORROW Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:34:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jill Morrow https://jillmorrow.net/seventeen-years/#comment-170747 Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:26:57 +0000 https://jillmorrow.net/?p=864#comment-170747 In reply to Kristina Riggle.

The cicadas sort of defy memory. They’re intensely present for a condensed amount of time, and then they’re …gone. It’s hard to believe they ever happened at all. They’re the Brigadoon of the insect world.

]]> By: Kristina Riggle https://jillmorrow.net/seventeen-years/#comment-170745 Tue, 22 Jun 2021 23:52:43 +0000 https://jillmorrow.net/?p=864#comment-170745 “A lot happens while the cicadas sleep”…. indeed!

Allison Bechdel’s memoir FUN HOME includes a section on a cicada summer in her childhood that was vivid and important and almost too narratively perfect. She said she’s glad she kept a journal, or she wouldn’t have trusted her own memory.

]]> By: Jill Morrow https://jillmorrow.net/seventeen-years/#comment-170737 Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:31:15 +0000 https://jillmorrow.net/?p=864#comment-170737 I would love to hear everyone else’s cicada-inspired stories, too! Thank you so much for taking the time to read and respond. It’s appreciated!

]]> By: Debbie Scalise https://jillmorrow.net/seventeen-years/#comment-170736 Wed, 09 Jun 2021 14:10:49 +0000 https://jillmorrow.net/?p=864#comment-170736 Beautiful heartfelt memories!
So eloquently written!
Time marches on!

]]> By: Nora https://jillmorrow.net/seventeen-years/#comment-170734 Wed, 09 Jun 2021 03:37:21 +0000 https://jillmorrow.net/?p=864#comment-170734 This is so beautiful Jill. Another way to think about changes and family

]]> By: Pat P https://jillmorrow.net/seventeen-years/#comment-170733 Wed, 09 Jun 2021 02:37:38 +0000 https://jillmorrow.net/?p=864#comment-170733 Beautiful… wouldn’t of expected anything different!
Hope all is well, enough..

]]> By: Mary Miller https://jillmorrow.net/seventeen-years/#comment-170732 Tue, 08 Jun 2021 21:15:46 +0000 https://jillmorrow.net/?p=864#comment-170732 Looking out my back doors and thinking to myself that I don’t remember there being as many seventeen years ago. There must be hundreds in our trees in the back yard. Anyway, I really enjoyed reading your article.

]]> By: Maripat https://jillmorrow.net/seventeen-years/#comment-170731 Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:23:40 +0000 https://jillmorrow.net/?p=864#comment-170731 Exactly! Such interesting little life markers, aren’t they! Beautifully written!

]]> By: Bob DiNapoli https://jillmorrow.net/seventeen-years/#comment-170729 Mon, 07 Jun 2021 21:32:11 +0000 https://jillmorrow.net/?p=864#comment-170729 Life goes on, in many modes. A beautifully composed reflection.

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