When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.
I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.
And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?
The absolute worst I have ever been treated, the worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me, are by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia.
There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well. If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween.
He looked at me. " I do know how to deal with demons, Savannah. " "I know. Sorry. " "So I get a hug?" "No, but I won't smack you, and we'll call it even.
Last year in the U. S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found. . . That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year. . . . Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.
I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.
I'm a very positive person, that's something that's like my character Savannah. She's very positive in everything that she does and I'm the same way in real life. If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it. I just ignore it because sometimes when that happens you can get so involved that it does bring down your day.
If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?
Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.
