Lowdens Beach 2

harbor. I can still taste the air and feel the warm summer night as all my senses were alive and color, moonlight and youth quivered from every leaf.

My wife asks me if I miss that life now and I reply that I had it then and now I have my present life which is full as well. But I think it is because my experiences there were so full, so replete, that I could leave it. But I have not left it behind, for it has gone a long way to form me. I regard that summer cottage on Lowden's Beach and my early life there as, along with themselves, the greatest gift my parents gave me! The cottage is changed drastically as are the people. My parents have been gone for over 33 years. But that life is deep within me and the sun and moonlight; the green grass and blue water, dance and resonate in my mind.

David Young January 22, 2006