Okay, here's mine.
It seemed like a good joke when I posted the picture of the dumpster with "Landmark Removal" on the side, next to the school, now it just seems like a vicious image, though I'm not a Lutheran or anything. A bikerider through the parking lot, with the kids on the way to school, appreciating all the slogans on the side of the Lutheran school. "Keep it together!" "Faith is real." "Learning about God will help!" (Can't remember what they said now. I could have torn them down and taken them home; they were left.)
I feel like my family has been monitoring this process in an effort to not feel like it's happening out of nowhere like an earthquake or a hurricane. We are one street over in the middle of the street. I can't imagine what it's been like to be right next to it or across the street from it, noise, dust, constant wearying growling of those machines opening and shutting as they drop the last 97 years into dumpsters.
Maybe watching anything go up instead of down will be more fun, though I imagine it will be dusty and noisy. And then the sudden quiet when CVS sits there in a big squat rectangle, and we all watch to see if any more people go there than go to the little one down the street.
I guess the steeple's being taken off today. I'm hoping it gets flown away by helicopter, so we can watch it fly off above our heads as we stand on the sidewalk, our heads lifted to sky, and wave goodbye.
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Betsy Voinovich
