James Ewell Brown (fumblingtowards) wrote in britannia_ny, @ 2009-05-21 20:49:00 |
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Current mood: | calm |
attn: Buddy
Jim is doing his daily walk around Britannia--he does, every day after school and in the mornings on weekends. The slow steady progress makes his legs shake a little less, he doesn't know why, but it does help, and nobody here laughs at his drunken way of walking, they know him now, and there's something peaceful in that (and Jim has always, all his life, been a man looking for peace).
It's just good. Something always feels a little steadier--not in his body almost as much as inwardly, as though this place (which is his second chance: he believes this as strongly and secretly as he has ever believed anything, that this is his opportunity for redemption) is the magical cure the doctor could never give his mother for him.
He's whistling civil war songs; he doesn't notice it himself.