wrens fledge day after July 12, 2016

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Round Pond visit July 11, 2016

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intermittent

You arrive happy flashing that winning smile

Talking about getting the best medicine

After playing this morning with all three grandkids

Having fun and teaching through games.

It’s a world of wonder a gift to adults

When you are three, four and five

Learning and exploring everything

Beginning with no thought of ending.

You call the old Vietnamese restaurant

Saying, “This is grandpa and I want my usual.”

A familiar ritual ordering take out lunch

Where you first went in your youth.

We take you to walk around Laurelwood garden

A place nearby you have never been before

Glad to hear how it pleases you

“This place is delightful!  So peaceful.”

We sit briefly on an overlook

I see your eyes close with a dreamy smile

This is the beginning of the first hiatus

Pausing your treatment until more is needed.

The progression that ends eventually

Has an uncertain timetable some years from now.

We talk about the near term future

Making plans to spend more time together.

You show me what you have in your car

Supplied with toys and games and a skateboard

In the front seat well, the back seat and the trunk

Rolling along grandpa brings happy times.

You take out a sticker puzzle book to show me

Find the hidden pictures in the big picture

Holding it open so we can do it together

Two old men having fun being kids again.

Buckabear Pond July 9, 2016

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