I love the smell of summer mornings

I love people watching

I love the sound of the ocean crashing 

I love the beach when it’s not crowded 

I love all seasons

I love only enjoying what the seasons have to offer for a little while 

I love hating the month March 

I love decorating for Christmas even though its different now 

I love Christmas

I love how I love Thanksgiving more 

I love how my dad still makes most of the gifts from “Santa”

I love when it first snows and how it looks on the trees 

I love when the air smells like snow or rain and the calm presence it brings 

I love how I only love the snow but only until the end of January 

I love New Years Eve 

I love how I hate New Years day because realization sets in 

I love sweaters 

I love reading on rainy days  

I love not having anywhere to be

I love movie night on Fridays with my roommates 

I love Starwars, specifically Revenge of the Sith 

I love Hallmark movies 

I love that all Hallmark movies are the same

I love listening to sad music and crying just because

I love Saturday mornings and making pancakes 

I love how I hate 8ams yet I still register for early classes 

I love challenging myself 

I love how proud I am to admit that I listen to classical music when I study 

I love how badly I want to travel 

I love the movie Mamma Mia 

I love laughing at my own jokes 

I love the stars

I love the stars so much that I sit outside with my dad and freeze 

I love how the stars remain untouched 

I love how i’m so much like my dad 

I love my dad

I love how you bond with my dad because I know he wished for a son 

I love the way that you laugh and how contagious it is 

I love how we both cry everytime we say goodbye 

I love how you hate it when I cry

I love how you care

I love how I only have been in love with one person 

I love concerts 

I love when I saw Lord Huron play “The Night we Met” live

I love that I went with my sister 

I love the song “Sweet Disposition” when the beat drops 

I love that I’m my sisters maid of honor 

I love when my sister and I were younger you couldn’t catch us dead hanging out with each other

I love how my sister still drives me crazy, yet I would do anything for her 

I love weddings 

I love love 

I love watching people love people 

I love how I absolutely despise Valentines Day

I love how small my dog is 

I love that I hate when he barks at leaves

I love cleaning 

I love how no one really understands why I love to clean 

I love giving gifts 

I love watching peoples faces when opening gifts 

I love sunsets

I love how the sun only rises over the ocean

I love laying down in the grass in the summer and looking at the clouds 

I love sundresses 

I love when the sun sets at 8:30pm in the Summer 

I love how endless the Summer feels 

I love going to a bookstore and picturing the characters walking around in the store 

I love flowers 

I love making flower arrangements 

I love gardening 

I love planting tulips in the winter and how they start to grow in May 

I love taking pictures 

I love how I also am able to mentally capture moments around me 

I love how as humans we can remember the most vulnerable moments but also the worst moments 

I love how pure kids are 

I love people that are good parents 

I love how I used to dance

I love the Nutcracker
I love the time in my life where I didn’t care what people thought 

I love that I hate what people think of me

I love walking around Portsmouth, going into the fancy stores and not buy anything 

I love not knowing 

I love that I hate not being in control 

I love imagining my life if I went in a different direction 

I love that I hate the fact that no one can slow down time 

I love time 

I love how I wish that I could turn back time 

I love daydreaming about my future 

My process of writing my chosen “Loves” was writing them whenever they came to me. I didn’t really have a specific process, but instead remembering some things in my life that have brought me joy and I truly find love. One of the first things that I did before I wrote my piece was I read Alex Dimitrovs’s poem three times. The first time I just read it and took it all in. The second time I read it, I made notes of how his love might have fit in his life, where they chronological, did some Love fit with the next after it? And the third time, I started to write some things that I loved using his writing as a guide. I found when writing this piece, I realized that some of my loves, some people might not understand, but that’s okay. I didn’t understand some of Alex Dimitrov’s, because he wrote them to reflect his life and his life only. I would write some of my “loves” down and then come back to the paper a day or two later and add on. I think that writing them all at once becomes less meaningful and that I was just trying to get the assignment done. This way it allowed me to think about what I truly love in my life. 

My piece interacts with the pieces that we have read and written about because it reflects my life and the experiences that I have that bring love in my life. It goes along mostly with Doyle, Gay, and Smith. This piece reminds me of Gay and Smith because it is all about joy and how you celebrate the joyful moments in your life. When writing this piece I really thought about the things and people in my life that bring me joy. I feel that there is a strong correlation between joy and love. My piece also reminds me of what Doyle writes, especially the “Hawk” because this writing shows this man through the observations from others, and it wasn’t until the end that you directly heard from the Hawk. In some way you are hearing what I have to say, but my “loves” are just observations from my life. They could look completely different to others.