Blue

I traveled home in July. I spent 5 days there. Growing up in this family, this place is your home. There is no real way to explain this to someone who hasn't spent every summer of their life here. It's part of who we are, deep down. Something that will never leave you because it shaped part of you. For me it has been the most consistent place I have ever known. Roots and love. I feel proud of the million summers I spent with the sun on my face and the blue water in my eyes. Before us, our parents and Grandparents played here. The black and white pictures of sailboats and a life that looked like it came off the page of a magazine. Then we came and we grew in that sun and water. It was the very life blood of summer. Games of dress up, hours in the blue water, the loft, four wheelers, boats on strings, campfires, and the whole family. Waking up was the best, the smell of breakfast cooking and always the sound of jet skiers. Walking into the front room as the sight of that blue water would hit you is something that will never lose it's magic. My childhood was cemented here, never to be torn away. Now I am bringing my child here. She has spent every summer of her life here. That binds us tighter. She grew in the sun and water also. That will never leave her. It is her home too. From Grandma and Grandpa to my Dad and his siblings, to my cousins, now to the Great Grand Children. All the laughter, secrets, sleeping, playing, eating, living, belonging, praying, bonding, and growing. That is all forever inside those walls, sand, water, sun, sky. It's all there. It's all with us as well. No other place will ever compare because it's not just a cabin, it's something there are no words for. If I have to explain it to you, you will never understand. There are those of you who know and that is what is the most magic about it.