Largo Nature Preserve March 21, 2021

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timeline project

A timeline has a beginning and an end

The story of our lives as simple as a sentence 

Buried in the overall story of life on earth 

To be represented on the wall of a child's room 

What direction should the progression go

Beginning with the formation of our planet 

Or starting from the present traveling back 

Or built from the bottom up in layers like sediment 

If you walk down a long hallway marking time

With the years tracked on both walls beside you 

One will go left to right and the other right to left 

And whichever way it goes the meaning is clear 

But if you made a certain plan for the graphic 

According to what makes good sense to you 

Thinking it was your choice to make 

A different direction would be hard to take 

So I listened and talked with my friend

To sort out his feelings and then let them go 

To get back to enjoying his fun grandpa project

How to teach science to a young child  

 

My own timeline has had its moments 

When a similar turn of events upset me 

When expectation becomes disappointment 

The hurt can surface like a violation 

There's something in my childhood 

That makes me prone to such reactions 

That the adult must learn to let subside

To return to living here in the present 

 

Hillsborough River March 21, 2021

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Hammock Park March 20, 2021

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