I usually don’t preface these posts with explanations, but I kept approaching something while writing this. It felt as much like a poem as 650 words can. It’s reaching for some sort of absolution for something I didn’t knowingly do. It barely mentions that which I feel the need to be absolved from. I had a hard time concluding so I did my best and am just letting it lay.
Good stuff! I remember going out on that Catalina w/ you and your parents once and getting seasick after eating a roast beef sandwich on an onion roll that your mom very kindly made. To this day (tell your mom) I will not eat onion rolls.
The places you mention, really all places, are evocative for all of us, but in different ways of course. Point is, Martin’s Hardware for example, can bring up lots of different memories for all of us but they’re all grounded in the place. But the place is just a setting for the feeling/ experience. We all have to appreciate that people have the SAME (or similar) wants, wishes, dreams, goals, etc., they just manifest differently. I can ga-RON-tee (Thanks Justin Wilson) you that once upon a time a guy in Assknuckle KY looked out at Main Street on a Tuesday evening and thought, “I gotta get out of this town,” just like I did. And that same guy now probably thinks, just like I do sometimes, that it was actually pretty great, and wishes he hadn’t been so impatient with life. Thanks Pat.
While I sometimes want to leave BTR. Assknuckle KY hasn't entered the conversation. Yet.
Good stuff! I remember going out on that Catalina w/ you and your parents once and getting seasick after eating a roast beef sandwich on an onion roll that your mom very kindly made. To this day (tell your mom) I will not eat onion rolls.
The places you mention, really all places, are evocative for all of us, but in different ways of course. Point is, Martin’s Hardware for example, can bring up lots of different memories for all of us but they’re all grounded in the place. But the place is just a setting for the feeling/ experience. We all have to appreciate that people have the SAME (or similar) wants, wishes, dreams, goals, etc., they just manifest differently. I can ga-RON-tee (Thanks Justin Wilson) you that once upon a time a guy in Assknuckle KY looked out at Main Street on a Tuesday evening and thought, “I gotta get out of this town,” just like I did. And that same guy now probably thinks, just like I do sometimes, that it was actually pretty great, and wishes he hadn’t been so impatient with life. Thanks Pat.
Thanks for sharing today. Nice reflection
Thank you Jude!