This Spot On the Hill

From this spot on the hill, you can see the swimmers splashing in the water beyod the end of the dock.

From this spot on the hill, you can hear the birds singing in the forest and chipmunks chattering in the woods.

From this spot on the hill, you can see the blue heron glide into the reeds by the shore.

From this spot on the hill, you can watch the setting sun if you squint your eyes to shade its blazing.

From this spot on the hill, you can gaze across the water at another spot on another hill on the other side of the lake. And if you do that, you can't help but wonder if the people sitting over there would really rather be here.

For this spot over here is indeed a very good place to be.

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Half Mile Lake
Gowen, MI

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Scraps In The Basement

Michael, at Reading A1, spent some time sifting thru boxes of stuff left behind by a previous generation.

Reading A1/Scraps: ... any item of it a piece of someone's, some loved one's, vanished life. Every item a small but possibly readable pattern of a world. The house has to be sold, for my Mom's sake, and to be sold has to be disencumbered, and this chaff has to go: but all weekend long I felt that I was consigning my grandparents, my aunts, in the material fragments of their memories and actions, to a second and more permanent oblivion.

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