Day 44 ~ Parks

Today I attended with my family the opening of a park in our city. It was my first time at a ribbon cutting ceremony and also meeting the mayor. He mentioned that two other parks had been opened in the neighborhood recently. We paid a visit to one of them afterwards, since it was very close. It would have been a pleasant five minute walk, but one of us had to take the car, and I offered to do it. I discovered a small playground for little children, empty when I arrived. It brought back memories of a past decade with me and a toddler. Me lonely. Me grieving. But above all, me being a mom, playing with my son. I brushed off the melancholy and delighted in the park's theme: music. A "wall glockenspiel" consisting of cylinders of eight different lengths to play a full scale, two drums placed side by side resembling bongos, four spheres of different sizes. Before I knew it, my family arrived and I returned to the present.