Sunday, September 30, 2007

Ghosts

rowboats :: perkin’s cove, ogunquit, me :: sometime in 2002

Although I work in Maine and have to cross the “Bridge over the River Pi” (as my dad used to call it) every day, it still feels weird not to spend a week on Short Sands Beach.

I can eat at my favorite restaurant, can take even more pix of the Nubble Light, go to Brown’s for ice cream and travel to Ogunquit whenever I want.  And I take advantage of that.  Sometimes.  Perkin’s Cove and the Marginal Way is forever linked with my father in a way that time has not been able to dull. I can eat at BCH and do the Nubble (& Brown’s on the way back)... but when I walk the Marginal Way, I honestly don’t feel like I’m walking around alone.

It’s a weird feeling.  Even now.  Looking at this (heavily photoshopped) pic, I can literally feel him standing behind my chair.  It makes me wonder why that, of all places in Maine, is linked so strongly with him in my memory.  It certainly wasn’t our favorite place - that would be the Nubble.  Even though I feel him at the Nubble, its nothing like being in Ogunquit.

I don’t know why this is on my mind today, but it is. For whatever reason, I miss him terribly today.