For months it sat in my pantry, lingering alongside a bag of Italian semolina and various other supermarket curiosities.
I feel a strange urge to linger alongside a need to hurry past, like a house on the corner the kids say is haunted.
There is a crunch of snow that varies according to the temperature... Linger alongside a bird-feeding station whose display of sunflower seeds has just been replenished, and the soft, rapid-fluttering whirr of chickadee and titmouse wings will come in closer and closer, like a drawing of curtains on all sides.
What lingers in my mind, alongside these ideas, is a new, weightier sense of the past, and of what the people who lived in it ate, touched, heard, saw, and did.
Your trail, officially known as Lower West Observatory Trail (though it is unmarked), lingers for a time alongside the brook, then begins to climb.
(And for this Administration, alongside these issues lingers Webster Hubbell.
"Those worries, alongside lingering anxiety among centrist Republicans that the bill is going too far, threatened to leave the rebooted effort short of the votes it will need to pass next week, when McConnell hopes to bring it to a vote.
They point out that China's slowdown is just one of many factors worrying investors alongside lingering political problems in the eurozone, signs of weaker global growth and vast sums flowing out of fragile emerging markets such as Brazil.
Who can blame her? Flying through the air on a trapeze alongside the Hudson River, even badly, as the sun lingers high and the downtown skyline stares you straight in the face, offers up a kind of New York nirvana.
The feeling lingers that United still lack that world-class midfield operator to work alongside Michael Carrick and is something Ferguson must resolve, especially if United are to win the Champions League once more.
