“I want a plain, old-fashioned wooden swing,” I explained. “No frills.”
That meant the hangers would have to do most of the work. No gliders or automatic contraptions to help them. The frills would be the stories of the people who sat in the swing.
The perfect porch swing was waiting patiently in a catalog on the afternoon I stood on the empty porch and daydreamed it into existence. It arrived six weeks after we moved into our home. It was my first purchase for my first house, which turned out to be my only house, a place that is now on its second porch swing.
On the evening after the swing was delivered and hung, I walked barefoot out to the porch and gently sat down on the swaying seat. A light summer breeze stirred the leaves of the crepe myrtle tree, almost identical to the one in the front yard of the house where I grew up, 3,000 miles away.
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