Saturday, June 23, 2007
Wildwood Ave, can Sherry come over to play? Walking to Kindle school, the "Safety Patrol" and yellow Sam Brown Belts. Brownies, Girl Scouts and selling the cookies. Moms taking turns driving us home on rainy days. Pick-up games of baseball on Fernwood and broken windows...who DID hit that line drive??!! Noon whistle? Fire whistle? Baseball cards with gum and snow cones at the Genters... VFW carnivals on West Jersey Ave. Highland carnivals and bowls of goldfish...donated cakes. Fall leaves and the leaf-truck sucking up the ones we raked. Mosquitoes, the fogger truck and summer thunder storms making things hot and humid. Running through lawn sprinklers and kiddy pools and squirting hoses...mud. Playing in basements and backyards. Bikes and wagons and sleds and skates. Snow storms and dragging sleds to go down the hills and blocked off roads...a rope on the back of the van, pulling us down the unplowed street. Homemade cookies and birthday cakes...candles adding up. Christmas trees and decorating for the holidays. Making floats and marching in the parades...Dads with the fire companies...us with the Girl Scouts...waiting for the parade to form up on the streets and make their way down Highland Terrace. Family dogs, and sleep overs and camping trips... Graduations and weddings and children and time like light through crackled colored glass nick-nacks on picture window shelves glowing bright, going dim and casting sweet shadows of memory on the walls of our lives. Skinned knees heal...time passes...memories are ours forever. And I see Aunt Ethel smiling.
