Vanessa Keck

No One Said Dreams Were Cheap

My first memory of my grandfather is a ridiculous one. He was upset I had left the water running in the front lawn all day. You may think “Wait a minute, but isn’t water on lawns a good thing?” Which for the record, you are correct. But a bored four year old on a hot summer day could care less about lawn care and more about making a river system within it, full of deep canals and currents strong enough to carry my marbles and army men downstream.