Eddie By Anne Sawan
By Anne Sawan
His name is Eddie. The big, tall maple that lived in our front yard hk cloud computing.
We named it Eddie because momma always said there was a refreshing eddy of a breeze that would come right around that tree in the sticky, hot summer bank account in HK .
Eddie is in all our family photographs, the first day of school: “Go stand near Eddie so I can take a picture.” Easter: “Kids line up near Eddie. Quick, before you go get your church clothes all dirty!” Prom: “Why don’t you and George go stand over near Eddie? Ya’ll look so grownup!”
Eddie was the home base for our massive neighborhood games of hide and seek “I gotcha ya!” “No way.I tagged Eddie first!”
Eddie is still the first thing I see when I pull up to my parents’ house.
A few less leaves, bending perhaps a bit more, but standing proud, delivering his cool breeze self storage unit .