The power of family
09/30/2019
no matter how far away, family is still there for you
A family is never far away from your heart. Even though I’m 500 miles from my family in the summer, it feels like there right next to me. While at camp Mowglis, my family was never far away in spirit. I was standing on a rock in a cold valley with my camp friends way up in Maine. It was the summer but there was still ice on the ground. I was on a pack trip at my camp, and we were looking at one of the coolest sights Mother Nature could provide. We were on the Mahoosics, a long stretch of mountains that me and my friends got to go on. It was our third day on this trip, and apparently according to older campers, this was the best part. We suddenly realized it got much colder than when we were on the side of the mountain. I looked at my arm to see it was practically shivering. We weren’t prepared for this part, everyone had a shirt and shorts on. Our counselor led the way through rocks massive boulders, we went through caves and lifting ourselves over massive rocks. But that was a piece of cake compared to the last part, on this part you army crawled through a skinny cave. While pushing your pack i front of you. The reason we did this is because the cave was to small to be able to crawl through with you pack on your back, so we had to take it off and push it in front of us making it even harder. At the end we celebrated with lunch. As we packed up I looked back before we went back into the dark woods to see huge boulders covered in ice, this was the coolest thing ever. Even though they weren’t there with me on that trip, I imagined them with me. After the trip I wrote to them, I told them about my experience. Telling every detail I could. I sealed the envelope and dropped it in the camp mailbox. I walked back to my cabin, imagining my family there to, experiencing the same thing I was. It was like they were there. Experiences like the one I had, can be shared and experienced with my family. and can be experienced the exact same way to them, the way I experienced it. No matter how far away I’m away from them in reality. They’re really there experiencing it with me
Very descriptive imagery during the cave part, that was intense! It’s interesting how you almost felt as if your family were there with you. Personally, I haven’t felt that before, and that may be because we’re just different people, or I don’t go away from home as often has you do. Anyway, it was cool to see a new perspective on how you feel the support and love of family.
Posted by: Nick Brady | 10/02/2019 at 07:41 PM
I love how descriptive you were great piece Colin!
Posted by: Rory Kennealy | 10/05/2019 at 02:46 PM
Woah, I know how it feels to be freezing on a mountain (not a fun time) great descriptions and storytelling!
Posted by: Will | 10/06/2019 at 09:13 AM
You described the cold very well and your part at the end about the iced over boulders was really cool. The cold on mountains can really be a tough obstacle but in the end its always worth it to climb to the top.
Posted by: Max | 10/06/2019 at 01:24 PM
I liked how you described how you had to army crawl through the cave, it gave me a good idea of what that must’ve been like. Did you get worried that the cave would collapse at all?
Posted by: William O'Malley | 10/07/2019 at 03:15 PM