So beautifully written! "[B]ut when it was over their ballet of run and hide and find seemed unfinished, as childhood so often does, disappearing without a final conclusion, an opportunity to applaud and wave goodbye and take a bow. Childhood fades out, without us noticing...." And "the wise maples" testify to the passage of time, the enduring wisdom of nature/creation, and for some (like me) the wistful melancholy of the time passing, beauty fading, memory coming and going too, and decay of death near as well. Some death is sweet like the autumn leaves on the forest floor. But some death is most certainly not, bodies young and old in rubble in Gaza and morgues and graves in Israel (and now in Lewiston, Maine too). .....And then we have a Christian nationalist and election denier leading the House of Representatives on behalf of a criminal former President et al. Oh my. God of wisdom, beauty, love, justice for all children, young and growing, grown and aging and in the last phases of life, have mercy.
P.S. Happy Birthday to your wonderful and amazing son. You are blessed to have 2 of them!
So beautifully written! "[B]ut when it was over their ballet of run and hide and find seemed unfinished, as childhood so often does, disappearing without a final conclusion, an opportunity to applaud and wave goodbye and take a bow. Childhood fades out, without us noticing...." And "the wise maples" testify to the passage of time, the enduring wisdom of nature/creation, and for some (like me) the wistful melancholy of the time passing, beauty fading, memory coming and going too, and decay of death near as well. Some death is sweet like the autumn leaves on the forest floor. But some death is most certainly not, bodies young and old in rubble in Gaza and morgues and graves in Israel (and now in Lewiston, Maine too). .....And then we have a Christian nationalist and election denier leading the House of Representatives on behalf of a criminal former President et al. Oh my. God of wisdom, beauty, love, justice for all children, young and growing, grown and aging and in the last phases of life, have mercy.