Don’t Throw Away Yesterday
By Bob Golden
I stopped by the old home place this afternoon. Mom and Dad’s home. I left this home many years ago, to build a future with my wife, and high school sweet heart,Janet Golden.
I go back home, from time to time, as duty dictates that I do. Mom has left this home. She passed away in April 2012. Dad has also left my childhood home, as health, and age, has taken their toll upon his body.
Today, I stumbled upon a piece of my yesterday. A feed scoop I built, as an F.F.A. member at Sanger High School back in 1982.
The feed scoop, mom used for many years, raising chickens that provided meat and eggs for our family.
The feed scoop, I used, to learn about building things that would last into the future.
A simple piece of machinery, built by a simple young man. Taught to me by a simple high school instructor, in a simple little town in California.
The feed scoop was in poor condition when I found it today. Nails coming loose, and covered in dust of years from neglect.
It took only moments, for hands that now have grown old, to resurrect this simple piece of my childhood, and a tool my mother cherished.
The chickens are gone, along with my mother. But lessons learned, are never forgotten.
Memories fade…….or do they?
Don’t throw away yesterday, you may want to hold and cherish it in some tomorrow, that lies just beyond view.
I think I’ll hold onto this old feed scoop. Lessons and memories are held within its form.
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