By Royden V. Chan
We were away for 10 months and as soon as we arrived home, I rushed to our back door to embrace once more that familiar view I had missed so much – “the yard”— which was on the eastern side of our house.
The landscape had changed; the old dilapidated two storied building with its weather worn grey boards which dominated the center of the lot was no longer there. The four decrepit tenement rooms at the back were also gone.
Those memorable surroundings which had cradled my entire life of childhood intimacy were replaced by the incursion of a huge, unsightly greenheart wood structure. Continue reading
