A Lubbock Story

Kevin Tully

Special to The View

When I was about seven or eight my two buddies and I crawled over a seven-foot-tall stucco wall into the yard of a neighbor that lived down at the end of our street. We were able to get over by using trees on either side as ladders. The house took up two city lots, with the tall stucco wall all around the property. The wall had only a large oriental style entry door in front and on the left of that a great sliding door that opened into a magical courtyard with fruit trees and a fishpond. Peeking through a crack in the great sliding door we saw the pond with colorful fish, swimming back and forth.