Days Gone By…#338

June 28, 2021July 22, 2021 ~ Elizabeth Ann Johnson-Murphree

We were poor, but the world of a child knows no rich 
or poor.   My daddy was a Sharecropper, my mother 
worked in the cotton mill making thread, Ma who was
 well into her eighties crochet doilies, my sister was 
going to marry a young soldier, and me…I ran barefoot  
in the cotton fields and roamed the caves in the bluffs
 of Burleson Mountain near our house.

My heart sometimes aches for those times, the tarpaper 
shack, the little white church on the mountain; and the 
innocent days of yesteryear.  They are all gone now, 
only I remain with the memory of those long ago days.

However, I find that I can return at any time and stay as 
long as I want.  Memories never grow old.

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9 thoughts on “Days Gone By…#338”

I just love this! Thank you for sharing it.

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I agree the memories never grow old, and I take comfort in it.

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Those were the days…

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Sounds a lot like my childhood…lord, I miss it. 💙

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Enjoy the memories. They sustain us in the more complicated world we inhabit today.

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I quote, “ I find that I can return at any time and stay as
long as I want. Memories never grow old.”
Yes, it is true that you can ‘RETURN’ (as Jews says it) any time… But instead of memories I suggest use ‘the soul’ or ‘the spirit’ because only these are eternal.
The one who remembers the childhood, teenage, youth, grown up is not memory but the soul.
The movement can be recorded against a constant. The soul or love or beauty are names of the constant and the eternal. We forget a person’s name then who searches and where? It is not remembered! so it is not in the memory.

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Elizabeth Ann Johnson-Murphree says:

July 23, 2021 at 5:39 pm

Thank you, your comment is so meaningful, I appreciate it such insight and needed to be written, E.

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The soul does not remembers but keep ‘watching’ like we watch the traffic of city from a high rise building. Without any prejudice or thought just watching.

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