Betty’s Shack, Dallas TX, c.1940, Hayes Collection, Accession Number: PA76-1/20361.1, Dallas History & Archives Division, Dallas Public Library.
For the past three or four years, I’ve made it a tradition to read stuff by Fred Buechner while I’m on vacation in the mountains. It’s always a thought-provoking treat.
It is by its content rather than its duration that a child knows time, by its quality rather than its quantity–happy times and sad times, the time the rabbit bit your finger, the time you had your first taste of bananas and cream, the time you were crying yourself to sleep when somebody came and lay down beside you in the dark for comfort. Childhood’s time is Adam and Eve’s time before they left the garden for good and from that time on divided everything into before and after.
21 June 1980
45 years
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