THE DUALITY OF TIME: "Postcards from the Mother Road"
SPECIAL HOLIDAY EDITION – (POETIC) CONSIDERATION #168
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TUESDAY DECEMBER 24, 2024
“Midst a muddled reminiscence,
things inescapably come together at last –
Our life and destiny reside in the future,
because you cannot repave the past.”
– Frank Elkins (Postcards From The Mother Road)
PREFACE
Merry Christmas Everybody!
We complete this Special Holiday Series with a brief memory from the past reflecting the duality of time.
I am a child of the road trip. Several times my parents packed my older sister and me into the backseat of the car for a cross-country trip to West Virginia or Pennsylvania, where they were originally from. The best part of the trip was Route 66 from California to Chicago. It had everything a small boy could ever wish for: Indian ruins, cave dwellings, prehistoric dinosaurs, firecrackers, and all kinds of strange and unusual sideshows and attractions. Always, just ahead.
In the summer of 2016, I retook that road trip with my fiancée on the original southwest section of Route 66 to Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was a surreal experience to compare past memories to current reality. The effect of time on a highway, a nation... a person. It had never been more apparent that time marches on; you can appreciate and even cherish the past, but you cannot live there.
CONSIDERATION #168 – Postcards From The Mother Road
by Frank Elkins ©2016
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POSTSCRIPT
Route 66 was America's Highway, The Mother Road, transporting millions of Americans, like my parents, West to new dreams and opportunities. And millions of their children also traveled the same road, vacationing on their way back to visit relatives from across the country. Those magical moments of mystery and adventure on Route 66 remain some of my favorite childhood memories. Merry Christmas Everybody!
Next week we begin our consideration of Book III, The Enigmatic Mystery…
P.P.S.
This unique Christmas poem is not necessarily festive and merry. It is an intimate reflection regarding time and Christmas. It is not the typical Christmas poem and I generally do not publish it for the holidays. However, it fits well with this week’s consideration of time and duality. And it’s Christmas Eve, so…
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