Reminiscence
I see the VFW golf course once busy and alive now in disrepair on the way home from the shopping mall
Dandelions on the fairway, the green, and in the sand trap
I have memories of golfing there,
My eldest son's wedding weekend we played golf
He had a good shot over the pond and trees - unforgettable
The reminiscence of when coal was king in our county and city
and manufacturing jobs were plentiful
Businesses were booming
Pickup truck sales were through the roof
Now the activity is deadening
These businesses are long gone
Golf course empty, no carts running busily about
The power plant cooling towers in the distance, now idle, without steam from the towering stacks
I live in remembrance as I’m walking the shopping mall parking lot
Now nearly empty of cars
Decades before not even a place to park when department stores, like Sears, BonTon, Kmart, JC Penny were rambling with business
Alive with shoppers and children running the aisles and through the garment racks
We were young, both working, had to set appointments around schedules of each other's work, and kids- for the car when needing tires, inspections...
Long walk home and then returned
My dad loaned us his Sears card so we would have what we needed-
as we needed help, washer and dryer on the blink
The back entrance at Sears, the loading dock was always busy with appliances being loaded, lawnmowers and all ...
Today Sears is bankrupt and long gone
As most of the other department stores
Now two food wagon-trailers are present
One is a Fried Stromboli wagon, and the other is Ice cream and milkshakes.
as a place for me to return our Amazon packages
I still feel quite nostalgic for those days gone by
Life busy and full and stressed in a productive way
Things so good
Gratitude feelings
Warm sunny days, car seats with Cheerios and fruit chews stuffed in the sides
Sticky faces and necks of the kids- sippy cups tumble and stained shirts
Older, Trips to Getty heights park, ball bats, gloves and soccer spikes in the back of the Aerostar
Reminiscence -a story told about a past event remembered by me the narrator,
Why is it we reflect on the enjoyable recollection of past events and somehow screen the hard
Memories that make today more pleasant- nostalgia
“Nostalgia is how God sees all the time.”1
We will recover, our city will change and carry on
We “adapt, improvise, and overcome”
Children grow and age and have lives of their own
Now helping chart schedules, jobs and lives themselves
Reflection, recollection, memories help us as we go on our way
Some may think it saddens the present to reminisce
I think it only sweetens the days
Revitalizes the heart and the small town appeal and austerity
Only polishes the hearts of gold
“We are people of hope, and therefore we do not live in the past. We draw thankfulness from the past.” 2
Reminiscence, Glimpse poetry by Joe Holuta
1. “I can have nostalgia for almost anything. That’s how it works. It makes the events of your past integral in your present, as I’m sure they are. Nostalgia is how God sees all the time.”
-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean, Notes on Ego, Love, And the Things That Make Us Who We Are
2. “We are people of hope, and therefore we do not live in the past. We draw thankfulness from the past. We draw life giving repentance from the past. We feed our faith and hope on the faithfulness of God in the past, and we learn everything we know and get all the wisdom we have from the past. But all of it is for the sake of this afternoon’s joy and this afternoon’s faith and this afternoon’s obedience and the joy of all eternity." -John Piper
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