The Garden Swing

–Co-authored with Raissa Urdiales

For a child, a garden is a secret place. It is a place full of amazing colors, sweet scents, and birds singing to greet the day. It is the oak tree that buds each spring, the sign lazy summer days are on the way.

What oak tree would be without a garden swing? A simple board hung by rope at just the right height for the smallest child to perch themselves. Swinging high or just sitting and enjoying the gentle rock as the breeze passes by. Time is neither past nor future in the garden; we seem to master enjoying the moment as a child.

I still walk within my garden every day now that I am grown, looking for that moment where time is just now, a place to experience this moment, to just being here now. It is time to leave the garden and enter the day. As I get older, I return here more often, looking for now, this moment without past or present.

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Larry Tyler

Awaken the possibilities … then unleash them. After 55 years of successful retail management, I have returned to my passion of writing. I write Poetry, Storytelling, and Short Stories. As a child, I grew up on front porch storytelling. I would sit and listen to my Dad and his brothers tell these great stories that were captivating, and I always wanted to hear more. I wanted to experience the things they talked about. I started writing at a young age and reading everything I could get my hands on. At twelve years old I started a storytelling group and several of my friends became writers or poets. At 16 I hopped box cars and worked the tobacco fields, orange groves, picked cotton, and spent many nights around a campfire listing to life stories. Someone once asked me why I wrote. It consumes an amazing amount of time and I assure you it is not going to make me rich. I write so that my children can touch and feel my words telling of the ones that came before us and the stories they told me. These are the chronicles of our family and even though they come from my childhood memories and are deeply rooted in a child’s remembrance at least they may feel what it was like in the time before them and cherish the things the elders left behind. I am a Columnist & Featured Contributor, BIZCATALYST360 and I have The Writers Café, a group on LinkedIn that features Poets, Writers, Artists, Photographers, and Musicians . On Facebook I have two groups and one page; Dirt Road Storytelling, From Abandoned To Rescue Dogs And Cats, and About Life, Love And Living. As writers, it is true that we honestly do not know what we hold within us until we unleash it. When our words inspire others only then will inspiration return to the writer. I will spend my twilight years in search of the next story, the next poem, and the next image. I will take the time to enjoy my Wife, our Dogs, and Cats, and our amazing new home and I will always find the time to walk down a dirt road I truly hope is that I never have to read another book on Leadership, be on a conference call or see another plan o gram as these were the tool for what I did in life and not about who I am.

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Laura Staley March 15, 2021 At 6:22 PM
Beautifully captures that “now” moment with experiences of nature, a garden, a safe place to be. Thank you for this inspiration, my friend.
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- Larry Tyler March 16, 2021 At 9:37 AM
  Thank you my favorite poet. Always grateful for your feedback

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