Sacred spaces come in all shapes and places…

Sutherland Park in Sioux City has made these pages before, because every time I’m home visiting the parents, I BreakAway daily to this beautiful relic of what used to be a buried water tank to serve the neighborhood. It’s also a park—a large, private square block atop a high hill that overlooks 3 states and more.

My friends and I gathered there routinely for decades, and still do when in town, which happens not so much as most long ago moved on and the years fly by. Frisbees, guitars, beers, lawn chairs, boom boxes, sundowns, and friends. Don’t cost nothin’. Life feels great. And the memories never fade, no matter how thick the fog.