8/23/15 was the 235th day of 2015. It was a really nice Summer Sunday spent at Church, a Temple soccer game, and a family and friend movie excursion. But what kept coming into my mind were flashbacks to times gone by.....it's amazing the connections that one's memory can make. As we were driving to Temple's Ambler campus, we passed by the site of my nursery school, Walnut Center, which has now been razed for development on Drexel's campus. I remembered back to Mrs. Bacon's (yes, related to Kevin) classroom, where she let me read to the other kids in the class. At 4, that was pretty special. And we passed by the site where I proposed to Sarah, a parking lot on Penn's campus, but a lot no longer as the Perry World House is being built there. And then we passed by the site of the Wharton Sinkler Conference Center, a place at which I spent many a summer weekend evening, working weddings and other special events, as we did, "I Want To Dance with Somebody" was playing on 80's on 8....a song I remember playing while dancing around the Sinkler Kitchen with Nora Jackson, our chef. And then we arrived on Ambler's Campus, and my mind was back to the department picnics my dad used to take us to, when he worked at Temple, and the fun times and softball games that happened there. All these things were in the recesses of my mind and it is amazing the connections that can be made when passing a place where wonderful things occurred.
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