From May

The beginning of a walk with the moon in the sky.

Would like to have this Jasper.  I could take or leave the kettle.

From Ebe's favorite park.

A common stop on our evening walk.  Here we usually stop and make phone calls

to family and friends.

Views like this provide a stark contrast to where

I grew up, in the Suburban South.

What is it like to grow up in an environment similar to this? 

Does one feel a place in history?  A part of some specific context?

Not that growing up in the suburbs doesn't provide a specific context, 

but the context is defined heavily and maybe mostly by the media 

(do you remember watching Reboot?) 

or consumer goods (do you remember Ecto Cooler?).

Of course, maybe that is just a sign of our times with the

emergence of the internet.  I remember getting the internet 

and a hotmail email address in 5th or 6th grade.

However, I don't remember ever meeting with friends

and reminiscing over some old hang out or the old 

high school because there was no old hang out or old high school.  

There was just the Walmart in York County or  the Bookworm on Cherry Road.

Not that I don't have found memories of the Bookworm,

but I grew up in an environment that felt like it could

be a suburb anywhere.