April 22, 2024

Earth Day. Surprise from ZR Landscaping that they can do the yard beyond the fence tomorrow. Must dig up whatever I want to save today. 

Thought of dad’s building projects, and how he must have anticipated with joy being a father: a sandbox with a roof, so we could play in the rain; a teepee made out of burlap; a dollhouse you could go inside and play in for my sister; most famously, “the big slide,” a sliding border bigger and faster than that on the school playground. I could go far beyond the neighborhood and be identified, metonymally, as “the Big Slide.”