Very stirring Thom. Very poignant.
What is it about age that keeps pulling us to the past? We eat a sandwich and remember our first trip to the deli. We pass a flowering tree and remember our first walk with the woman who became a wife. We watch a black and white movie and can almost feel our mother's hand in ours as we watch it again on TV. It has such power and grace and yet it can be so fierce at times.
Splendid my friend.