I’ve taken more visitors for a walk around Walden than probably any place else.  Writers, hikers, sisters :)  everyone finds something to like about.  But I rarely get the chance to walk it with the one person who knows why it’s my favorite walk.

Annie was my BFF in highschool.  Somewhere in my basement I have a stack of letters that she wrote me every summer. Different color pens for every line of the address, envelopes decorated with Gilbert and Sullivan lyrics and stickers.   She has an almost identical stack from me somewhere in her attic, I’m sure.  It was such a kick to drive her by 17 pantry road to see the mailbox all those letters passed through.

This pond that had so much romance and promise to me at 16.  I spent those few perfect summer days on this beach, building sand castles with my cousins and dreaming, the evenings writing long letters about everything, looking out at that mailbox.  

So funny to be here on this crisp fall day at 40, walking it together, finding we are just where we wanted to be, the 2 of us. 

You’re a doctor!  I work with cameras in theatres and get paid for it!  Are we amazing!