King & keeper

Trip Start May 18, 2008
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Trip End Jun 16, 2008


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Monday, April 28, 2008

"The child is both king and keeper of this realm, and he can be very choosey about the company he keeps. Of course, this exclusivity only provokes many grown-ups into trying to regain the serendipity of their youth for themselves, to, in effect, retrieve the irretrievable. A desperate few do things that later land them in the Betty Ford Center. The rest of us, more sensibly, read Calvin and Hobbes." - Gary Trudeau

Every day I am comforted that my experience is not unique. That Watterson through Calvin and Herman Hesse via Siddhartha, share a universality for a squandered youth. Glancing at my bookshelf, NS said wisely, "If I were you I would re-read all of Calvin and Hobbes and the Peanuts." And somehow, yes, it restores. As does my home town where history passes you by - the streets forming George Washington's spy trail, the battles fought for ideals long forgotten, an old lighthouse atop a rocky bluff, sunday in a church founded in 1660, and waves that never cease.

All the things I yearn to do, BB conjures up memories from his own childhood. We share the same town, the same friends, the same teachers. But he has already lived. Maybe Siddhartha was right, disillusionment and sorrow is necessary for renewal. Tomorrow, I begin my search.
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