CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST

talks about

the big things in life

by

focusing on the small.

It's there

in the way friends speak

when they go out for drinks,

in the shared late night walk,

in the eating of a watermelon.

It's there

in the way a man who's dying and a woman who's living

realize that

we build our lives out of the details,

and that

while we're alive

every one of them is like frozen time.

And that

after we're gone,

all the details,

all the perfect mornings,

all the shared experiences,

all the times we talked to someone who was really listening -

after we're gone

it's all lost,

forever.