Summer Sun
Summer 2012 at the Oregon Beach
Beautiful day full of silky hot strands of sunshine in the air
Watching my children exploring, making a limbo game from a fallen tree
Taking off their shoes to tip-toe into the water
Recklessly hanging upside down from the play structure.
“Mom, can you take my picture?” they yell.
I fill with pleasure just watching them play.
Soon their little bodies will be brown from exploring in the sun.
Kissed by the light with a loving residue left behind as the brown of summer fun.
I sit, talking to my grown-up daughter
At the Oregon Beach
feeling strangely like there is something I should be doing
but it is just the memory of the busy week.
I feel my body start to unwind.
I yawn.
“Let’s go get ice cream, ” I say.
The crowd goes wild.
