A summer years ago, I remember being at a river for swimming and enjoyment. Family time, laughter, the sound of children with joy.
The water flowing down mountain side at an easy roll, smoothly rolling along rocks that have been there since time began. Boulders large as trucks - large as tanks, river rocks under feet.
I had Two Ears then, and in this village, I was known as Big Bear, and I sat there letting these little pesky fish nibble at my toes. We all remember that warm summer day. I always thought and think of the Nail Replacers, letting aqua tanks filled with flesh eating fish to let eat customers toes and feet. No, not I and not in a sauna neither... Hardly in the wild, yet one had to be there to get it really. Oh, how funny those little tickling sensations felt on each toe.
As if yesterday, I sat there so still, for what felt like a peace serenity bath by God, remembered being baptized there in the flowing river that was so cold I would ensure we all got out for a break every so often.
I enjoyed observing a large cloud of beautiful Butterfly's - yellow and white colors, a fluttering cloud of nature live and with our naked eye. It is here where the water is clear and so cold that it takes time to grow accustomed to the cold as a winter’s rain. It was then and there, in the summer of a commitment to my Sister Easy Face and the Little Bears.
That summer, my relationships with my niece, and nephew's, Little Bear and Baby Bear, and my dear Sister, changed. As I made sure we were all safe there that afternoon, evacuating the water when a snake swam across that fast moving river. From that summer’s Day on, my sweet wife and daughters were there with me and by my side. There on the banks of that sweet clear cold water, I became the Uncle every child would want to have. I've loved these children, who are now grown ass adults, one with three children. Easy Face, my dear sis, you know I made it my business to keep more than just an eye here with them. I left my heart, oh how I have loved them as if mine.
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