Three mornings

Yesterday

Yesterday morning in the woods I met a man dressed in bowhunters' garb, using a golf club as a cane as he limped along, accompanied by his lovely, friendly English setter. This man had a face well used to smiling, though he had very few teeth. Our greeting pleasantries were interrupted by snowmobiles, grooming the trail. The second snowmobile dragged a thing like a harrow, un-compacting the hardened snow.



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Today

In the Dunkin Donuts this morning, "I'm going to make a man out of you," from the movie Mulan, was blaring. How I smiled! This song is a favorite in our house. Another Disney song followed.

"Is this a . . . a cassette?" I asked the young woman at the counter. I was reaching for the word "CD" but "cassette"--a throwback to my own youth--was what came out.

"No, it's Pandora, on the Disney channel," she said, smiling sheepishly.

The day before yesterday

The first day of warm weather, the air full of melting snow. I walked to the supermarket. Ahead of me, a young mom with her small son. In the supermarket I passed them several times. After I paid, I walked out, only to find them ahead of me again on the sidewalk.

Cell phone photo from an old cell phone, so it's tiny and blurry



"We must have had about the same amount of shopping to do," I said as I passed them (you walk at a much more leisurely pace when you're with someone with tiny legs).