Where you look back look forward turn around or press on? 50/50 right in the middle
red cherry Popsicle split in half on a hot summer day
an age proudly proclaimed by a child inching closer to the next birthday I'm ten and a half!
two quarters, one for me, one for you, when one could get you a full sized candy bar
a marching band show sandwiched between two time clock quarters under Friday night lights of a high school football game, drum major on the fifty yard line telling the band what to do
a small town in Texas where Mom pulls over to let you drive the rest of the way home after running errands because you don't yet have a license
pit stops for stretching cramped legs letting the kids run around four more hours until we get to Grandma's roads don't seem to end in Texas
a mid-lifer assuming one lives to 100 contemplating what-iffing if-only-ing I should-ve... Stop! you're did what you knew best to do
This is such an evocative set of images and impressions. I loved conjuring the different pictures in my mind, all reflecting a range of life stages. A delight!
Such creative iterations of half-way! I can definitely empathize with the musings and the long Texas roads from my El Paso days. I hope you spend more time hoping for a long, happy future than in ruefully remembering past mistakes; those are all just lessons, anyway.
Nerds Beget Nerds 
This is such an evocative set of images and impressions. I loved conjuring the different pictures in my mind, all reflecting a range of life stages. A delight!
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Thank you!
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Such lovely imagery in this post. I especially love this set of lines:
red cherry Popsicle
split in half
on a hot summer day
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Thank you. I rarely eat them now, but it sure sounds good.
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Such creative iterations of half-way! I can definitely empathize with the musings and the long Texas roads from my El Paso days. I hope you spend more time hoping for a long, happy future than in ruefully remembering past mistakes; those are all just lessons, anyway.
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These Texas highways go on for miles. I’m getting better at moving on from past mistakes. I appreciate your wisdom, as always.
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It is so hard not to do this: “
a mid-lifer
assuming one lives to 100
contemplating
what-iffing
if-only-ing
I should-ve…
Stop!
you’re did what you
knew best to do”
What-iffing is a haunting that I hope is excised as we creep closer to 100.
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I’m working on it and (hopefully) refining my “oh-well-ing.”
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You evoke vivid images and memories. My favorite is the “red cherry Popsicle split in half on a hot summer day”
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