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Field note 0918

A birthday note for Lina

The days
I keep.

Some memories arrive quietly. An open field, your hand full of yellow flowers, and nowhere else we needed to be.

Walk back with me

SEP
18

01

That spring afternoon

Outside the city

Nothing expensive.
Nothing planned.

We walked through the fields. We stopped whenever you wanted a photograph. We talked until the light began to fade.

A pause in the green
One of the photos we stopped for

02 / The sentence I kept

Ordinary days like this were better than expensive dates.

You may not even remember saying it.
But I do.

03 / Nearly three years

It was never only
the big things.

The quiet days when nothing important happened

September 18

Happy birthday,
Lina.

I spent a long time thinking about what I could give you this year.

Flowers disappear.
Gifts get put away.
Photos slowly disappear into our camera rolls.

So I wanted to make somewhere for a few of our memories to stay.

I still remember that afternoon in the fields.

You were picking little yellow flowers and told me that ordinary days like that were better than expensive dates.

I don't know if you even remember saying it.

But I do.

And somehow, after almost three years with you, I realized that most of my favorite memories aren't the big ones.

They're the walks.
The random conversations.
The photos we almost didn't take.
The places we stopped for no reason.
The quiet days when nothing important happened.

I think that's what I love most about us.

You made ordinary days feel worth remembering.

Happy birthday.

I hope we get many more ordinary days together.

— Daniel

For all the days ahead

The ordinary days
with you became
the memories
I want to keep.

L + D · 0918