Why can't anyone stay in one place anymore?
Carole King
When I was four, I became an only child.
It was no one's fault
At least not mine
Dad was a Commander, and the Navy decided to ship us overseas
and our family as we knew it ceased to exist
Our house in Maryland... rented out
Our furniture - off to storage
Our dog went to a neighbor
My brothers, quite a bit older than I
were already mid- launch on their life trajectory
One to be an actor
The other to college
Growing up....they were moving off in to their own lives
And....well they just kept going
So
At the age of four, I became an only child.
Those were hard days…for all of us, I guess.
Scattered literally around the world
Hard to find a good memory there
Until today
I came across a patch of honeysuckle
Walking down the street and there it was
I had to stop
The honeysuckle…why did that make me feel...restored?
Oh!
We had a huge patch of honeysuckle at that house where we last all lived together as a family!
It was all along the fence in the backyard and I would make bouquets of those tiny yellow flowers
And my brothers taught me how
to sip the nectar!
I remember the honeysuckle….
And the rest fades away
Today, I wish you a honeysuckle memory of your own
And that’s poetiquejustis.
