Weekend Memories of the 4th

• We stayed in the pool and just talked and talked about everything and anything until our fingers and toes were wrinkled. Friends re-connecting.

• The three of them, father and daughters, paraded around the pool singing, Yankee Doodle Dandy, waving their flags, smiles on their faces.

• They jumped and pushed until the waves were higher than the sides, and when we laughed we sucked water.

• When night came, we stood with our neighbors outside to watch what we could from our driveway. My neighbor, in her pajamas, her bald head covered with a hat, her little dog Pita at her side told us about fighting for her life from cancer.

• They both wanted it. They both needed it. An epic final. History made and shared with my girls.