Under the pergola
A moment of pleasure: Sitting under the pergola at my brother’s house outside of Cleveland. Taking in the Cleveland-ness of being here.
I can’t really explain this. Something in the air has a distinctive quality, maybe the humidity and the heat of Ohio, and it takes me back to summers growing up here: listening to the Beatles on my transistor radio (WIXY 1260), swimming with my friend, Nena, at Stafford Park, play-by-play of the Indians’ baseball game always in the background….
In meditation class this week, our teacher read Wild Geese by Mary Oliver, who is from my hometown.
It must be a fabulous place, I wish I could see it Val!
Enjoy your writing, Val. And the summers of my growing up years were all accompanied by the play-by-play of the Minnesota Twins on WCCO radio….it was a constant….
Thank you for reading, Donna!