1235: Discovering Lost Memories: Friendship, Forgotten Paths, and Hidden Treasures
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/05/24
Two friends and I used to take the back paths in town.
It was quicker to go out that way. Around a portion of town,
A snakewind along the trees’ interior.
I began to just use it. But one drop was pretty fun.
It was steep,
Either dirtglide or run for a possible Fall.
Hit the roots to foot to break pace.
You’re safe.
Home was changing. The paths were later developed.
Artifice in the trees.
Synthetic footing too.
But before this,
We saw a rotting shed,
Sorta.
We went inside.
It was abandoned.
Off path.
Closer to the homes.
But in-between,
Neither.
We discovered forgotten Home.
We went inside.
It felt dirty.
It smelled musty.
Rusted tools and all.
I used to deliver papers for a friend,
As a young teenager.
His mom gave me a Garfield mug as thanks.
When you unpacked it,
It had banding.
The kind you’d find at truss factories.
But plastic,
The ones at the factories were metal, careful now — sharp.
The abandoned shed had a pile of newspapers,
In banding.
Did they deliver them at one point?
So many unknowns,
still so many unknowns.
They were old.
I took a pile home.
Banding handles,
Who woulda thunk?
Still stinky, though.
What a treasure from the in-between,
In the garage they went.
Next day gone,
Thrown out.
‘Treasure.’
Friends drifted apart.
The path was ‘developed.’
The shed was torn down.
Memories are a little like those places.
The quick way became a way.
Friends became the shed,
The path,
The newspapers,
The banding.
What was the treasure?
What did I find out?
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