Things Remembered

I keep thinking about all these things from the past. Things that the younger ones, the newer generations will never know unless we tell them about these things and really they don't care to hear about the things of old. They really don't. They don't have time because time, time to listen is extinct. It is a practice that takes energy best used elsewhere. I think of things gone by like, when television went off at midnight, or was it 2:00 a.m.? I think it was 2 a.m., and then every thing was sleepy and it meant it was really time for rest.

I think about being in elementary school, and walking to school and it was a fun walk most of the times, except in the winter when the ice on the sidewalks made one slip and slide and almost fall on your butt. It was a fun walk and we all walked together. All of us from the orchard. I think about the fall in New England and all the leaves that would fall onto the ground and the ground would be cold and how we loved to lay on the leaves, bury ourselves in the leaves, the rustling leaves. And the time we played chicken which was not a fun game, at least not to me. We would have to stand there, while someone standing about five feet away from you, maybe six, threw darts at you. I mean literally threw darts at you and attempted not to hit you in the shins with the darts. That was not a fun game, especially if you did not have on jeans or something. But we played it anyway and I was extra careful because I was a chicken really deep down.

I remember going to school, the first days of school and the rainy days and what the auditorium looked like. I remember going to the auditorium and having to wait and we would be in line and wondering what we were waiting for, and it was to get our shots, our annual or time for it, shots and it would be there at school with people at the top of the line, watching and waiting for someone to faint and inevitably, someone would, it always happened that way...

These are some of the things, just some, not many of the things, just a few that I remember...