Baseball Fragments

If nothing else,

the beautiful backdrops

and big skies 

of baseball diamonds

have filled my

heart with good things.

This is Elias's third year of playing baseball and it is a sport that he has grown to love. Unlike basketball, he did not initially derive a lot of pleasure from playing this game but it has grown on him and, to be honest, it has grown on me as well. I went from a kind of begrudging involvement to really enjoying the lazy passage of innings, the smack of a ball in a mitt, the pinging noise of a successful bat swing. The thing that hit me today is that every baseball diamond we play at has its own unique personality, but they all share the same big sky with a wide variety of weather patterns that unfold overhead as clouds pass and the sun arcs to the horizon. They are memories that I will treasure even when our mitts are gathering dust in some future attic.

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