For the May journaling challenge, I found (yeah!) this picture of the beach house where I spent several very happy childhood vacations. I went back nearly 40 years later to find the house and take this picture.
Journaling:
So many happy menories, the most poignent of all childhood memories, are contained in this tiny house in Ortley Beach New Jersey. This is where I learned to love the beach, not just the sand by the ocean, but the long hot streets leading to the ocean, the smooth-pebbled lawn, the knotty pine walls, the constant feel of sand under your feet, no matter how much mom swept out the sand, it was always there, the smell of musty dampness.
How did we fit in this tiny house, how does it hold so many memories, how did it generate so much happiness?
This was the sixties. Bob Dylan was playing on my portable radio, I had my tricycle that I rode around the tiny yard, there was a turned-over boat in the yard, interesting yet scary, for who knew what lurked beneath it.
Many years later, I returned to Ortley Beach to find this house, this house of happy childhood memories, and there it was, looking much like it did back in the 60s, the bushes perhaps new, perhaps a few new coats of paint having been appllied over the years, but the same house, just as precious as ever.
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