on this day in…
~ 1997 ~
island days
oh…that day…
what i wouldn’t give to go back to that day…just for a bit…
to plant myself on an obliging drift log and just watch those boys explore that island all over again…
those boys…now all grown…
those “big” boy cousins…when they weren’t any bigger than these crazy “little” boy cousins are now…
them loving it there ever-as-much as i did when i was that big…when their papa and nana started taking we three…
and then when we were all grown…papa and nana, we (married) three and all of our (so far) littles…making those end-of-summer treks so many memorable times…
and then…for 21…him and me holing up there for that five glorious days…
and now…another full circle…that boy o’ mine planning a trip back there again…
back to explore that island…and reminisce…“just him”…
‘round and ‘round…circle after circle…
this life always rolling on forward…
always picking up speed the further it goes…
and yet somehow…sometimes…one rolling-forward circle comes full ‘round…and dips back…even if just a bit…into the full circle just before it…
hills being rolled…islands being explored…His story being told!
this blessed dipping back in, all the while still moving forward…
and me…just (ever-still) sometimes…wishing i could just circle…all the way back…and around once again!
