It is a school holiday, and I am not sleeping in. On the contrary, I
have been up all night, ready for sleep just as my school holiday gang
is ready for its vacation day. It turns out that, after just a short
recovery, I am too. There are necessary things accomplished, because in a
busy life, that is what you do with a day off. There is work for
school, because a day off is really just a tiny pause in a stream of
expectations. But for a short time, sometimes too short even to
remember, there is a feeling of abandon. For just a moment, there is an
escape from the "need to" and the "should" and the "must." And in that
moment, there is ice cream. In that moment, there are goofy looks, and a
lot of laughter, and the kind of complete abandon that leaves us
feeling really connected, not by the studying of vocabulary words or the
carting back and forth or the routines of daily life, but by the joy of
making each other chuckle. The joy of appreciating the moment.
The day off is over in an instant. The moment is gone, the joy of
abandon put on a shelf for next time. But if we listen carefully, we can
still hear--and feel--the laughter...
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