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| It's perfect that the people in the foreground are shadowed. It's like this photograph is exclaiming, "picture yourself here!" |
Experiencing the fullness of summer requires spending as much time as possible outside. My family and I spent a warm afternoon at a park festival that happens in our city every year and after getting lunch, I could hardly wait to get over to the bouncy house section. Whether you are the one bouncing or the one looking inside to watch others do the bouncing, I really cannot imagine a place happier than a bouncy house.
I find bouncy houses to be an iconic piece of the childhood of Gen X. I have happy memories of being in them as a kid in the 1980s on slow summer evenings when there's nothing on the to-do list, just time for fun. No matter how good or bad you are at sports, or at school or anything else, we all become equals in the bouncy house. There is no score, no competition, and really there no wrong way to jump. The higher you jump, the harder you bounce and the higher everyone else jumps, too.
It would be very hard not to smile in a bouncy house.
(c) 2011 photo and writing by Chloe - all rights reserved
2 comments:
This would have thus been the only sport I was good at. The Bouncy House is the Great Equalizer.
Me, too! It's almost time to go back to that same festival again this year - maybe they'll let me into the bouncy house if I tell them I'm still a kid at heart!
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