Catherine Kiff-Vozza

Holding on to the best the summer has to offer…new work available tomorrow for CKV Insiders and Monday for everyone else! Link in bio to shop the paintings and make them your’s starting tomorrow atv7am, insiders check your email tomorrow morning for the password!

Seeing lots of posts of seniors graduating and remembering the excitement that that day came with. The world was wide open and we could go anywhere and do anything.

But simultaneously it was a celebration of the friendships that had carried me to that day too. It was the summer of 1996…it was filled with driving with the windows down blasting a lot of Nirvana, a ton of Phish and the Grateful Dead and all the mix tapes we made for eachother.

We hung out in cul de sacs of yet to be built new developments, drove to concerts in other state and savored that last summer like we were never going to get it back.

Funny how we knew…this was the last time we would be together like this and we made it count. I regret nothing about that wild summer and the people I spent it with.

Some are still my closest friends and others have faded off into life but always remain in my memories.

The summer I graduated from high school had to be the best summer of my 47 years…I’d give a lot to go back to those days and people even if just for a night.

“Most of our childhood is stored not in photos,but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, texture of the carpet.”

Or in my case…the smell of play doh or the feel of that ridge down the front of a Barbie leg. My teen years are wrapped up in the taste of coffee in my celestial mug and smell of ci******es in a diner.