The Misadventures of a Sunday Morning

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Collette had seen pictures two days before: the great sand dunes of Michigan. She had seen them herself seven years before – Sleepy Bear Dunes. Who would have thought it would take twenty minutes to climb a dune. Dad, Carrie, and Joe shimmied up with no difficulty. Collette recalled herself and Rose dragging each other half-way up and pausing for rest. Up top, Collette found no further energy to hike to the sea (a lake, rather, but much less mysterious-sounding) among the reeds and driftwood where Dad and Carrie had already gone and returned. Collette found her day in the sun two years later backpacking in the Tetons while Carrie went shopping in Jackson Hole with Mom and the kids, and was cat-called by a troop of Scouts as she walked by their van sitting outside the shops.

“Why is it always Boy Scouts?” She asked Mom, quite embarrassed.

Meanwhile, church brought Wallace replacing OLeif on violin and mandolin, who had also misplaced his new retainers. And Theodore, Denae, and Izzy came to worship as Christ Presbyterian seemed to be without electricity, as was most of the Florissant area. And Sinai opted not to preach that morning as he had been experiencing a case of vertigo. So and so the morning went. And storms tumbled in the heavens gambling for the best city over which to play.