Life in Firefly Village

Week 20

Life in Firefly Village

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      1.   Intriguing how community takes place and people 

            adhere to form.

      2.   I had a professor, a sociologist, who defined

            socialization as the process whereby a biological blob becomes a social slob.

      3.   Amazing, too, how simple good will gets things started in

            the right way.

      4.   Perhaps you can’t go home again, but you can savor

            what home gave you.

      5.   It was a slower time then, but life still requires we make

            the most of fallow time, when more happens than we

            think.

      6.   Me? I like to watch tall grass bend in the wind.

      7.   Have you seen any fireflies lately?

Curb

We, boys mostly,

sat on the curb

in our town

wherever we

met to play

ball in the streets.

Sometimes we sat

there with a

portable radio, listening

to some game that mattered.

The curb was

the starting place,

the spectator place,

the ending place,

when our time

in the street

was done,

when we might hear

someone’s mother call

her son to lunch or supper.

There were times,

too, after supper

when our dads would

join us, till it

began to get dark

and we’d sit on the curb,

laugh and tell stories,

and watch the fireflies.

© 2012 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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