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Marty’s Memories - The Challenge of Gray by Marty Trower

I am back at my clothesline again. I never took it down, not even after I got my used dryer a week ago. The line stretches from one birch tree to an another and then to an oak but I hardly interact with them except to roll and slip on the oak’s endless carpet of acorns. When I am awake early sometimes the birches catch the slanted orange light of sunrise. I see it quiver on their white skins and watch a day begin. I am back again thinking of my mother while I stretch and hang the clothes, always remembering her complete joy and satisfaction with life while at the clothesline on a buffeting, breezy day. It has taken much meandering over the past thirty years without her for me to come to this point of unraveling and appreciating her insights. I think it has something to do with seeing the color amidst all the gray.

The sheets I fling over the taut line are spankingwhite and breathing the nippy air torn from the sea. They will bring all this good stuff from the natural world into my home and I will make the bed as carefully and lovingly as my mother used to. She would tell us after dinner that we had -Oh boy -clean sheets to look forward to that night! I really should rake up that river of acorns but I know I never will. Instead I will find and pull up dozens of little red-rooted oak trees on the ground next spring and grumble about them trying to take over. It will be worth it though, I’ve accepted that. Already, the ominous gray of winter weather is slipping in, the fog and drizzle fitted in between the mosaic of pulsating red and flaming orange leaves. I’ve watched those colors glow next to their faded green and brown siblings and known that they will soon all fall and become part of the ground.I will take the clothesline down and look for color in the sunset hours. Lake & Co. now offering Family Meal. All the comfort and decadent items we make for events, to heat and serve in your own home. We love bringing you healthy and hearty homemade foods each week.

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