a shock in the pattern

Pioneer Valley, MA

[cw: death of a young person]

On a whim, I decided to set foot on the campus of my college, Hampshire, on the way down from Vermont. It has changed a lot in the roughly twenty years since I graduated; there are plenty of new buildings, the driveway has been reshaped, and the pull-around for the intercampus buses has been moved.

But the library seems almo…