After my father passed in June, my husband and I took a Road Trip Odyssey to favorite places my family had enjoyed in my adolescence, and to visit the cemetery in Wenatchee, Washington, where my maternal grandparents are buried. As we passed this sign, I knew we were almost there.
Highway 97 driving south toward Wenatchee, Washington – USA
After visiting the cemetery we went to the house my parents had built and where my family lived from 1956-1961. It looks as lovely as I remember it.
The rest of this summer and into autumn I have been writing about this experience – revisiting places from my childhood and spreading ashes in sacred places. The project has taken much of my time and energy – hence not so many posts here (or responses to your posts). Here are links to some I offered real time when I was at these places – all of which have deep nostalgic value to me.
https://lindylecoq.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/macs-landing-deer-lake-wa/
https://lindylecoq.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/shady-pines-resort-conconully-washington/
https://lindylecoq.wordpress.com/2016/07/23/conconully-by-canoe-wpc-cherry-on-top
/https://lindylecoq.wordpress.com/2016/07/24/wenatchee/
Nostalgia
Lindy Low LeCoq 
from Walt Whitman:
Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form—no object of the world,
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere
confuse thy brain.
Ample are time and space—ample the field and
nature.
The body, sluggish, aged, cold—the embers left
from earlier fires,
The light in the eye grown dim shall duly flame
again;
The sun now low in the west rises for mornings
and for noons continual;
To frozen clods ever the spring’s invisible land
returns,
With grass and flowers and summer fruits and
corn.
Oh, my. I love Walt Whitman — Leaves of Grass — I Sing the Body Electric —
Thank you, Tom.
🙂
I’m sure you must have experienced a flood of emotions and memories. Beautiful Walt Whitman quote!
Yes, I did — and still do. Thanks for visiting and commenting, Peter!
So lovely.
Thank you!
I love how you combine two different challenges into one post! you’re so cool!
And I was posting two separate ones…you are certainly smart 🙂
Time is of the essence for me right now, and it’s fun to see if I can get it to work out! Thanks for visiting and commenting.