Here's to the hood. It's the demise of which that has hit us so badly...the loss of human connection. This is what we really miss... Dells Park, tucked off on the far side of the pond, sometimes reminds of what things once were like...a mixture of older folks & young families, out & about in the summertime, passing, pausing to chat...some folks, yeah, they're just going to be that way, and we keep things brief & polite. But that little kid who told me they'd had a "Kowboy bunny" at daycare? She made everything good for about three minutes...and that's all that matters sometimes. Her om said they'd had baby bunnies to daycare that morning; three brown & white, and two black, like Kowboy.
This was great. I live in a neighborhood, but I think it's a real neighborhood because of the personalities in it. It's very multicultural, and a lot of people on other blocks have dogs and walk by and we all know each other. I work out in the yard and am always talking to people. It's also getting younger people. But I (as you know) don't have a cell phone and neither does Nell, a black woman from Mississippi in her eighties whose husband just died. I have a computer (this one) but I don't know if she does, although her husband certainly did. We're older and we don't use electronics a lot. We also both grew up without tvs. I don't know if the Muslims across the street have one. I've never seen her hair and she's only worn long dresses or pants. But we all connect really well and last week I was an emergency cat-sitter for the young Asian couple on the corner.. No crime ever.
Here's to the hood. It's the demise of which that has hit us so badly...the loss of human connection. This is what we really miss... Dells Park, tucked off on the far side of the pond, sometimes reminds of what things once were like...a mixture of older folks & young families, out & about in the summertime, passing, pausing to chat...some folks, yeah, they're just going to be that way, and we keep things brief & polite. But that little kid who told me they'd had a "Kowboy bunny" at daycare? She made everything good for about three minutes...and that's all that matters sometimes. Her om said they'd had baby bunnies to daycare that morning; three brown & white, and two black, like Kowboy.
Excellent. Right to a salient point without distracting profanity.
Cute
Spot on Wendy.
Totally agree, Wendy. 100%. 👍😎
Great words Wendy!
This was great. I live in a neighborhood, but I think it's a real neighborhood because of the personalities in it. It's very multicultural, and a lot of people on other blocks have dogs and walk by and we all know each other. I work out in the yard and am always talking to people. It's also getting younger people. But I (as you know) don't have a cell phone and neither does Nell, a black woman from Mississippi in her eighties whose husband just died. I have a computer (this one) but I don't know if she does, although her husband certainly did. We're older and we don't use electronics a lot. We also both grew up without tvs. I don't know if the Muslims across the street have one. I've never seen her hair and she's only worn long dresses or pants. But we all connect really well and last week I was an emergency cat-sitter for the young Asian couple on the corner.. No crime ever.