The March Day, Millenium Park, West Roxbury, Boston
Millenium Park in the West Roxbury section of Boston is a remade dump.
Tucked behind a Home Depot, municipal parking lots, and rail lines, along a long neglected narrow upstream tributary of the Charles River, these few acres were resurfaced and restored a few years back. The longer view remains one of urban clutter and the typical weary mundanity and sleepy lack of drama that makes up my hereditary homeland in the southwest of Boston.
But the old Blue Hill rises in the distance, the small riverlet runs and winds through willows and reeds and under a train bridge. Here people come and fly kites, run laps, stroll babies and dogs. Ducks paddle, a heron stalks, and red-winged blackbirds were calling to one another today, defying the still melting snow and half frozen stream.
It's a good place to focus on one's awareness, because there's nothing here, and everything.
