back in the day
My grandmother tells me stories about the way things were when she was young.
Mostly they’re about all the things that I have that she didn’t have, or how things were different. How big the computers were and how phones had wires.
Sometimes she tells stories that her grandmother told her.
Her grandmother lived in a house with a yard. A yard is like a private park, I think.
I wonder what these things looked like, sometimes. I’ve seen pictures, but they’re not the same. I wonder what it would be like to look out a window and see poles and wires that connect conversations.
To see the sunset and the clouds.
About flax-golden tales. Photo by Carey Farrell. Text by Erin Morgenstern.