The trip back to yesterday. This pastThursday my cousin Linda and I crawled into a time machine and traveled back in time to 1956. The machine worked like it had just rolled off the assembly line. The first stop was the Hardy Autry Cementary. The indented areas on the ground revealed the grave site of our kin the American Indian all the way up to our ancestors who encountered General Sherman as he ravaged his way across our territory. If you closed your eyes you could see the horses and wagons making their way across the very plot where Linda and I stood. The yesterday of their fighting and survival was our Today of providience. It took a few turns of the time wheel, but we were off in no time flat to the Baines Pint to the very farmland where Linda and I suckered tobaccow and mashed tobaccow worms. The new barns of yesterday had now become the old rust colored and vine covered relics of the past. We could feel the good times we had back then dripping over our now older bodies, but still playful minds. Old Black river, which was young black river back then seemed to be inviting us to jump in for a swim. I would have, but Linda is kind of scared of snakes, and since I always try to obey her…we didn’t go swimming. Finally the time machine sputtered and stopped at an old oak tree which 68 years ago gave shade to our farm house with a tin roof which made the rain sound like music as it danced and dripped off the edge. The yard that now has weeds was once the playground for My cousin Mickey, Linda, my mom and myself to play ball. That little red rubber ball with a chunk bitten out by our dog Jimmy is no where to be found. I guess if you were to rate our fun that day it would be a ten. I wish my friend Terry Smith could have been with us. You better crank up your Time Machine and go back and visit the past with your cousins while you are alive, because one day the morning glory vines want drip their glory any more. Enjoy your family and never be silent in telling them how much you love them.
To all my cousins…I love you.
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