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Walking to School

Until the age of ten, I lived in Cranford, NJ, in a little post-war housing tract typical of the times. Through fourth grade, I attended Brookside Place Elementary, walking the four blocks to school every day with my Waverly Place neighborhood friends, walking home for lunch and then back to Brookside—Campbell’s Chicken and Rice Soup and a dish of Mott’s applesause under my belt, and walking home again after school.

It’s that stretch of sidewalk between my childhood home and elementary school that evokes my earliest memories of the utter delight of scuffing my way through dried leaves in autumn—the crunch! the crackle! the colors! the musky earthy smell! the fun of kicking whispery kaleidoscopes of leaves into the air!

Kicking Leaves on the Walk to Brookside School
7 x 9″; acrylic, India ink, and watercolor pencil on sketchbook paper
abstract
2023
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9 responses to “Walking to School”

  1. carolee36 Avatar
    carolee36

    My favorite pastime too! Miss the fall, colors,smells,and the cold nip.

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      Dotty Seiter

      After a string of gloriously warm sunny days last week, today definitely has a crisp cold nip. Regardless of temps, I get to kick dry leaves every day now : )

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    Joyful Puttering

    I absolutely love this memory….and your collage piece illustrates it perfectly! Well done!

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      Dotty Seiter

      MaryAnn, you get it—both the memory and the scattered-bits collage art illustrating the memory. Yay, and thank you!

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        Joyful Puttering

        The scattered bits are what make this so perfect! I can hear the rustling of the leaves.

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    imajenationgmailcom

    what a splendid memory! The art is ideal – capturing the utter delight you had in those moments! Hooray!

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      Dotty Seiter

      I didn’t know I was capturing a memory until after the creation of the art allowed the memory to fly into sight, like a bright dry leaf kicked up off the sidewalk by an elementary student walking back to school after lunch at home on a fall afternoon : ) And, yes, Lola: hooray!

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    Sheila Marie Delgado

    LOVE! 🙂

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      Dotty Seiter

      🙂

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