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​blog: You'll Never Be Quite the Same

Bushwhacking through the past

6/27/2020

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            There used to be a clay tennis court here, inside this tennis-court-shaped rectangle of chain link fencing. Child Robin watched anthill activities in the sand while parents competed against aunt and uncle. “Dig in, Mouse!” yells Dad. I learned tennis here, sometimes in bare feet. I suffered raspberry prickers searching for lost balls, chased dogs off the court, invented ridiculous games with cousins.
            Jonathan and I played against siblings and in-laws while our kids sat on the old wooden bench, maybe watching anthills, fetching balls.
            Now it’s a dense, rectangularly fenced forest. I hadn’t tried walking through for years until today. 15-foot pines crowd so closely that I had to push and bend and duck, tripping on undergrowth. The dogs gave up. I pushed on, whipped by pine boughs, lassoed around the waist by twining bracken.
            It’s hard to plow through the grown-over past. It grabs you. You can get lost in there.

 
My 60th year in 60,000 words
Day 153: words, TOTAL = 50,173; 9,827 remaining

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Nina
6/29/2020 10:11:44 pm

Gulp :/

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    Robin Clifford Wood is an award-winning author, poet, and writing teacher.  She lives  in central Maine with her husband, loves to be outdoors, and enjoys ever-expanding horizons through her children, grandchildren, and granddogs.

    To read about the "60th year in 60,000 words" challenge, go to the August 27th blog post. 
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