Timeless

To come to this place
That has remained relatively unchanged over the decades of your life, while life has been changing you, children have grown and started lives of their own, everything else about life has been change change change
Going back to the grounds of your's and many others childhoods
The place that holds so many wonderful memories
And pieces left behind from loved ones now gone
Relics attached to a certain year when this or that happened
Generations of summer vacations spent in this space, on this ground
To put your feet in a place your 5 year old feet were, or the 5 year old feet of your cousins, mother, your grandparents when they were young and carefree
All the stories that live here
All the sameness, and all the differences are clear here

It is such a tremendous gift
It makes my heart quiet
Pulls all of life's chaos into an old canvas knapsack
And the wholeness of that life seems to have some sort of messy & lovely
Coherence
And grace

Magic