i remember this day

i was five.  i remember going out to the truck that morning thinking,
i'm five.

that would have been 1973.

this was in luce park in kansas city, where we're from.

i always loved going to luce park because i could feed the ducks and swans.

they are still there, too.  but where am i?  who is this child?

that's mum and papa in the foreground, in their matching white shoes.  

so strange looking at mum's face at that age because
it's my face, looking out at me.

and next to her is mrs. watson, the mother of my little friends

michael and miriam watson, who are sitting on the other side of me.

funny we are eating KFC.
that was a birthday food of choice again not so long ago.

my disgruntled older siblings are at the other end of the table.

seems like some weird energy down there, or maybe that's how i remember it.

although my sweet brother nick, on the end, always the photographer.

he took that pic of me, and he recently sent me these.

this wasn't too long before we moved to florida, i think.

papa is being released from the hospital today, after two weeks.