Lost in Space

As usual I do not have time to do this. But no one is home and I can do the paperwork later,right?

The other day I went to the elementary school to pick up Owen. Oddly enough I got there early! I sat on a bench under the tree and just stared at my surroundings. As we go deeper into the fall season I am more and more amazed at life. Some on said tome many years ago, "if you have any doubt as to God's existance, this is the proof." It may have taken me 25 years but I understand what she was saying now!!

The leaves are changeing color, the temperature is cooling and there is a sense of preperation in the air. The sun beats down on you and you are not hot. The air is crisp and clean. School is back in session. You smell the change all around.

I am reminded of an episode of Lost in Space. They land in what appears to be a shopping plaza. It is evening time and there is no life. The Robinsons feel like they are home, but it isn't right? Then they see themselves getting ready for take off. How could this be? Do they try to change things or let things go as before? I don't remeber much else about the episode, except that it made me feel that there are many dimensions of our lives.

While I am looking around I feel as if I am not really there. I feel as if I am the six year old at my elementary school in Ct. I stare out at the life surounding me it may as well be 1968 (it seems strange that 1968 is the past and I was a part of such a long time ago?). The buildings are not structures of this era. They are from a time before plastic, when education was not about cost but about the growth of children. There are columns at the entrance to the school. Etched into the wood above is CENTRAL SCHOOL. The kids look out of huge windows that let sun in and where, occasionally, minds wander out.


The two who have been chosen to bring the flag in come out with the principle. The flag is lowered and she shows the children the proper way to put away the flag for the day. Families begin to arrive to pick up their kids. The sound of the school yard is changeing now. Little brothers and sisters are runing around. Busses are arriving. Cars continue to buzz past. The crossing guard is taking her position. There is no bell but we know they will be coming out soon. The conversations wane and the attention is given to the opening doors of the school. They are coming!!!! Running out of the gate and onto the field. The games begin!!

The trance is broken with the scream DAD. I am suddenly transported back to 2008. The fall colors are still bringing me wonder, I still feel the autumn air through my body, I still feel like I am a kid, but I know that I too am participating in the changes. As I look at a part of myself asking me if he can go on a bike ride with his friends I want to say," can I come?", but instead just say "sure". While I head on home I think that I have to make something that will make the house smell like fall. Of course, roast chicken and pumpkin pie!