I remember : Bill's Challenge

[Cita]

I remember going to the fabric store with my mother and being scared to use the bathroom because it was in the funeral parlor next door.

I remember thinking motherhood would be all pink and blue pastel emotions.

I remember my first e-mail address.

I remember the summer I walked around and around and around the local high school as if I were waiting for its doors to open in the fall, my own personal Jericho.

I remember what you said in the dark that night.

I remember hearing the clink of dominoes long into the night as my parents and grandparents played 42, shaking over and over again, and how the sound soothed the child of me to sleep.

[Mike Handley]

Outstanding in form as much as content. Makes me want to pan for some pristine nuggets.

[bolton carley]

bill - we need to play pinochle! :)  love it!  cita - love that you thought of pastel emotions.  and the dominoes made me remember, too.  these are so familiar to me!

[Gita]

I like the mixture of concrete sentences abstract sentences,  like 3 and 4.

Your dominoes night reminded me of childhood sleepovers ate my grandmother's apartment on her canasta night. Not a pristine memory, but a powerful one.

Your pieces always pack a little emotional TNT for me.

[Angela]

It is great the way you mix in all stages of your life in random order.  Makes it more authentic, like thoughts wandering through one's mind.  Each one could be the bones of a wonderful six.

[Teresa]

Love this six and Bill's comment below -- "pristine memory".  Exercises like this create a lot of those.