Swings

Today was an easy day. A wedding in the early afternoon and then hanging out with neighbors later in the afternoon while talking about my risk.

First I need to go back a few days: I ran into my neighbor Karen the other day and I told her that I got involved in an experiment. Here is the summary of the conversation. Jon Acuff who works with Dave Ramsey and wrote the book Start asked people to go on an adventure with him. Over the next 24 days you would figure out what to “risk”. Your risk can be big or small. Jon said but it has to be yours. She thought was cool. I told that mine was to create original content for my blog everyday.

Now that I'm caught up to Saturday and I was hanging out with my neighbor this afternoon in her backyard on her swing. I said: gotta go home and write my blog. I told her some of my ideas and then told her that if I can't think of anything I'll write about a quote. Karen then threw me a curve ball: write about swings she said. I've taken the challenge. I'm going to write about swings. Here goes my blog about swings.

I grew up in New York City and the park with swings was not too far from my house. I used to be scared to go too high cause I was afraid I would fall. I got up the courage and I used to pump myself as high as I could. It was fun. I remember going to visit my aunt in Pennsylvania and sitting on her swing. Granted the mosquitoes would have a nice dinner but it was nice to relax in the quiet on the swing.

After my niece was born one of the things she loved for me to do is to push her in the swing at the park. We would have fun with her laughing as I pushed. The pouting that would occur when Aunt Chris needed a break. But I would always go back to push her since Annie enjoyed it so much.

Sitting on the swing today just talking about stuff with our neighbors Karen, John and Kim reminded me of how we all need swings in our lives. That place where we take the time to slow down and just talk and listen to each other. We all need to make the time to do that.