House, 1957
For hours after supper, my brothers and sisters and I played in the front yard. The side yard was for hanging clothes. The back yard, for watching the sun set beyond tall grasses. When darkness came, we’d go inside to play cards and take baths. It was a ritual. Our house was our universe. I guess we were like planets spinning around. Of course, we had no way of knowing what would happen in the future to any of us. My big brother was a teenager and worked on his bike like a me