The Precious Gift of Child’s Play

Deborah Barchi
Age of Awareness
Published in
3 min readMay 11, 2020

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Photo by Leo Rivas on Unsplash

When I was a young child, a huge old willow tree toppled into our back yard from the neighbor’s yard behind us. It fell as the result of a hurricane that hit the East Coast in the 1950's.

The dense branches of the tree missed our house by mere inches. The entire back yard was a tangle of thick, green willow.

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Deborah Barchi
Age of Awareness

Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.