For the Ragtag Daily Post: past.
This is my sister and me in early 2012. She died on March 29, 2018, from breast cancer. She was 49.
past
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For Wordless Wednesday.
door to the past
This is for Norm2.0’s Thursday Doors.
I took this picture of pictographs in Hawaii, on the King’s Mamalahoa Trail. I find a nice scientific paper on line about dating pictographs, but I don’t have time today…. silca deposits in rock…
…but the pictographs are a door to the past.
Or
For yesterday’s daily prompt: Or.
I am looking through old photographs and wanting to escape, back. Hide. This is from 2007, my daughter on the beach. Nostalgia, but also the picture is imperfect. The horizon is not level. But I love the colors and she is so happy. The water, the sky, serendipity…
…because I am afraid of polarization and anger in our country and I am afraid, very afraid, when I read that the KKK plans a victory march. And then that turns out to be false: yet my son’s friend hears people chanting “No more safe space.” on campus on the night of the election. I won’t get lost in nostalgia or an idealized vision of the past. And I want my daughter to be able to run with joy….
