Since my TEDx talk in which I begin by talking about growing up near the best sledding hill in the world, each time I visit Philadelphia, I make a point of visiting it and taking pictures of it during different seasons.

Maybe it just looks like any other park to everyone else, but it’s incredibly beautiful to me. Near my mom’s house in the “ghetto,” as a neighbor described it, there was a hill we could sled on, but it ended in a brick wall and we got robbed there, so I valued this hill all the more.

Here it is last month, at the height of the summer, lush and green.

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