August 31, 2007

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  Some of you know that my son George made the cover of a recent edition of our local newspaper.  It's that time of year again, the local fair.  I volunteered on Monday and Tuesday at our church's food stand as a cashier.  It was a nice chance to see people I hadn't seen all summer and to get a chance to just watch life go by. 

  
  

  I remember as a kid those late summer experiences, to be able to get to go to the fairs.  I remember relishing those last 'free' days of summer.  Hooking up with friends meant something entirely different then.  Being free to meet and roam.  Feeling like real people, being able to go and do as we wished.  Even just for a few hours a day.  Not like it was during the rest of the year.  Having to do whatever you were told to do, being treated like cattle.  All sorts of prejudice being levied on you.  Just for being a kid.

  
  

  I am near the end of a week long vacation from work.  I am at that phase of being off where I have gotten into a rhytm of my own.  Doing laundry, dishes and general cleaning and still having time to go and do as I wish.  Just for the price of bringing my FIL with me for the ride.  It's been such a peaceful and unstressed week.  I go back to work on the 3rd.  Then it's back to being the trained pony again.  I want to feel like a real person that's valued at work again. 

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