I Miss The Wind In The Weeds And Pine Needles.
Personal memory by Hope M.
2008 CE • Raleigh, NC, USA
As a child in North Carolina, I remember growing up around farmer's fields and pine forests. The forests are now replaced with subdivisions, the corns and wheat gone or converted to roadways. I miss the wind in the weeds and pine needles.
Memory submitted at Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022
Image: bobistraveling, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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