Mikey Famiglietti - Response to Lane's "The Solace of Fierce Landscapes"

"The memories of a place become part of it" (Lane, 37).

When I turn and look out my window, I see something more than just a porch. I see all the people that have come and gone from that porch. I see my closest friends and I, guitars in hand, jamming on summer nights. I see all the empty cans and red cups from the party I was told not to have. I picture all the memorable moments I've spent on that porch. My memories have become part of that place. On the other hand, when my mom looks at the same porch, she doesn't see the same place I do. She doesn't see all the empty cans and red cups because I cleaned it up before she came home. She doesn't see me and my friends jamming on summer nights because she was sleeping. Although we are looking at the same exact place, we do not see the same place because our memories of it are not the same. What I experienced on that porch only lives on in my memory and those memories make the porch into something more than just a porch to me...