A Sense of Two Yesterdays

Yesterday. It was the 25th of September – the day that showed the real first change in the weather where I live. The early morning was a little chilly and the floors of the house were cold on the bottoms of my feet. Outside, the air was crisp and filled with the sweet aroma of the earth not yet fully disturbed by the sun. Clean and fresh.

The grass and the colorful leaves on the trees were all painted with a thin sheet of morning dew. They seemed to communicate, sending each other messages, glistening, flirting and winking back and forth. Silence blanketed the earth with the exceptions of the crickets softly chirping from their grassy hideaways and the sweet distant sounds of two birds singing their secrets to one another.

My skin responded with a slight chill as a soft breeze passed over me, yet my mind responded even stronger.

Memories can be so sweet…drawn back to you through all of your senses. The sounds, the smells, and the tastes...the surreal appearance a day can sometimes take on. The whole feeling of it all seemed to take me back to another yesterday. It was a yesterday when friends were countless, the future held its arms wide inviting you to all of its possibilities and sadly, for some reason, a yesterday when growing up couldn’t come fast enough.

My mind brought me beautiful visuals of days from my past –days that felt just this way. I found a feeling of freedom, a peace, an entrancing contentment as I remembered. So now I smile from the heart at my yesterdays...both of them.