This week’s theme for Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge is summer fun. I have already posted a haiku about sitting in the shade, writing and sipping an iced beverage. However, I am realizing that my best experience of summer fun comes from childhood. I’ve had fun camping and attending music festivals, but nothing really tops the excitement of our three-week family summer holidays. Perhaps I am romanticizing, but there is an essence that I hold… the pure joy of playing in and on a lake all day, and then at night swinging under a tree or sitting on a dock listening to the water.
My family is not sporty, but where we stayed there were water-skiing enthusiasts who believed everybody could water-ski…I learned how, without any fancy tricks and loved the feeling:
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flying in the wind
over shimmering glass
summer fun
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The only downside of water-skiing was the water pollution caused by the boat engine. As I progressed into my teens I started to feel uneasy about this. Now I favor canoes, kayaks and rowboats. Here is a picture of me at about age 12 in a rowboat on one of our summer holidays:
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