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Great post, that's some vivid imagery. There's many great writers here on HN, though I'd like to mention that your style of writing is fairly unique (and very

• reminiscentplay 12y ago
  Thank you. It might at that. My writing style on this was quite a but different than my typical comment, though -- discussion of a topic is different than telling a story. My therapist has hinted that writing down things about my past would be beneficial, and has been trying to get me to do it for a while. I'd started this as to illustrate the unsupervised play in my childhood as a nostalgic positive, but realized there were a whole lot of other things, not so positive, that had happened too. Between the bullying in school and boy scouts and the sexual assault in the boy scouts, it's been hard to think back and remember what my childhood was like before that. Sure I remember some of the good times, but a lot of the things in the post above I haven't thought about in decades - and thought didn't remember until I began writing and it all spilled out.