5 SECOND STORIES

 

She could hear hail on the roof while watching a fitness video at her office desk during lunch. At one point, the instructor mentioned "if you are hearing a clatter, it's because the wind is up here (TX) and the pecans are falling on the roof".

 

Quintessential 1960's teen memory trope: his first exposure to Clapton, Hendrix, the Yardbirds, the Beatles, the Byrds, Soul and R&B came late at night, under the covers, listening to his tiny transistor radio.

That summer, "Sunny Afternoon" by the Kinks was in heavy rotation on the radio. His mother was a fan. It would be playing as she came through the breezeway where he was sitting at the picnic table, drawing, and she would smile. The song had been around so long that commentary between them had become needless.

He realized that he was not a good fit in the coffee business when he discovered that he, unlike his colleagues, took no delight in creating patterns in the milk foam on lattes.  He especially loathed performing this for demanding customers during peak business hours.

 

From the Akira Kurosawa film "Dreams"...

A village known for it's expansive peach orchards has an annual festival devoted to the visual immersive experience of being enveloped in a blizzard of peach blossoms lifted by a stiff breeze.