It’s funny how, on revisiting the street where I grew up, the huge hill at the end of the road, that we used to slide down, had shrunk. Somehow, the mountain of my childhood was now, no more than a modest slope.Likewise, the dark forests that we played in, turned into small copses of trees, and the raging rivers we forded became tiny brooks, and lazy little streams.
Linguist: At least a copse is still there. As a child, I remember Arden Forest at SMU (they actually performed As You like It there) with a little stream running through it. I repaired a broken skate strap with some water sedges from the creek once. Now there is no creek and the forest is a half dozen bois d’ark trees shading a playground inside a fence (probably as much to protect the trees as to prevent children wandering off). The rest is university buildings and a few planted cedar elms along the streets. Not all the damage is a trick of memory.
38lowell over 11 years ago
“you go first”—-to see if you can survive the crash!Then I’ll go.
darrenmparr over 11 years ago
LOL at Paul – not quite the new smell I was thinking of though.
Ermine Notyours over 11 years ago
Just wait a few months and you’ll get snow.
Stellagal over 11 years ago
I used to slide down a muddy hill in a cardboard box. It was fun until we got scolded for playing next to the railway tracks.
Linguist over 11 years ago
It’s funny how, on revisiting the street where I grew up, the huge hill at the end of the road, that we used to slide down, had shrunk. Somehow, the mountain of my childhood was now, no more than a modest slope.Likewise, the dark forests that we played in, turned into small copses of trees, and the raging rivers we forded became tiny brooks, and lazy little streams.
howdoucatchauniquebird? over 11 years ago
Great evil face on Joey!
hippogriff over 11 years ago
Linguist: At least a copse is still there. As a child, I remember Arden Forest at SMU (they actually performed As You like It there) with a little stream running through it. I repaired a broken skate strap with some water sedges from the creek once. Now there is no creek and the forest is a half dozen bois d’ark trees shading a playground inside a fence (probably as much to protect the trees as to prevent children wandering off). The rest is university buildings and a few planted cedar elms along the streets. Not all the damage is a trick of memory.
akmarley over 11 years ago
Good thing its only urine and not something worse.
hippogriff over 11 years ago
Night-Gaunt49: Food has all the right things for healthy humans, but obesity is not healthful.